India Telecom 2000
Vol. 1 - Telecommunications policy and infrastructure

 

Table of Contents


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1.0 COUNTRY BACKGROUND

1.1 Demographics

1.2 Regional Background

1.2.1 Northern Region

1.2.2 Southern Region

1.2.3 Western Region

1.2.4 Eastern Region

1.3 Population

1.4 Distribution of Wealth

1.5 Teledensity

1.6 Currency

1.7 Conducting Business in India

1.7.1 Indian Corporations

1.7.2 Partnerships

1.7.3 Foreign Companies Establishing Offices in India

2.0

ORGANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMIC SECTOR

2.1 The Political System

2.2 The Executive Branch

2.3 The Legislature

2.3.1 State Governments

2.3.2 Union and State Jurisdictions

2.4 The Legal System (Judiciary)

2.5 The Political Situation

2.5.1 Background

2.5.2 Current Political Situation

2.6 The Economic System

2.6.1 The Banking and Financial System

2.7 Economic Reforms

2.7.1 Aims of Economic Reforms

2.7.2 Liberalized Foreign Investment Policy

2.7.3 Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB)

2.7.4 Import Policies

2.8 Economic Outlook

2.8.1 Fiscal Debt and Government Spending

2.8.2 Exports, Earnings and Investment

2.8.3 Highlights of the Indian Economy

3.0

ORGANIZATION OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR

3.1 Organizational Structure

3.2 Background

3.3 The Department of Telecommunications (DoT)

3.3.1 DoT Industrial and Economic Policies

3.4 Liberalization

3.4.1 History of Liberalization

3.5 New National Telecommunication Policy (NTP)

3.6 Future of DoT

3.7 Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)

4.0

FINANCING

4.1 The Needs

4.2 Funds required by cellular operators

4.3 Sources of financing

4.4 Problems and issues related to funding

4.5 Incentives announced in the Union Budget of 1997

4.5.1 Import duties

4.6 Advantages for Investors

5.0

CELLULAR RADIO

5.1 Introduction

5.1.1 Tender Rules

5.1.2 Limitations

5.2 The Licensing Process

5.3 Cellular Service Categories

5.4 Cellular licensees

5.5 Factors influencing demand and revenues

5.6 Tariffs and Rates

5.6.1 The impact of competition

5.6.2 Comparison of tariffs across Asia

5.7 The Market for Handsets

5.7.1 Handset prices

5.7.2 Handset subsidies

5.7.3 Market for handsets

5.8 The Market for Equipment

5.9 Roaming

5.9.1 World 1 Network

5.9.2 Domestic roaming arrangements (World 1 Network)

5.9.3 International roaming arrangements (World 1 Network)

5.9.4 Global Connect Network

5.9.5 Domestic roaming arrangements (Global Connect Network)

5.9.6 International roaming arrangements (Global Connect Network)

5.10 Problems

5.11 Licensing conditions

5.12 License fees

5.13 Financing

5.13.1 Government incentives for financing

5.14 Frequency Clearances

5.15 Revenue sharing

5.16 Interconnection

5.16.1 Zero Dial Access and call completion rates

5.17 Fraud and bill realization

5.18 MTNL's proposal to provide cellular services in Delhi; Mumbai

5.19 Market Size and Future Outlook

5.19.1 The four metros

5.19.2 Regional circles

6.0

WIRELESS LOCAL LOOP(WLL)

6.1.1 State of the market and future outlook

7.0

PAGING

7.1 The licensing process

7.2 The paging market

7.2.1 Nature of the Market

7.2.2 Economics of Paging

7.2.3 Revenues and costs for service providers

7.3 Financial status of the industry

7.3.1 Award of infrastructure status

7.3.2 Revenue sharing

7.4 Equipment Suppliers and Service Providers

7.5 Paging Technology

7.6 Duties on paging equipment

7.7 Roaming services

7.8 Allocation of resources from DoT

7.9 Growth and Future Outlook

8.0

PUBLIC MOBILE RADIO TRUNKING SERVICES (PMRTS)

8.1 Licensees

8.2 Technology

8.3 Market for services

8.4 State of the market

8.5 Issues of concern, and future outlook

9.0

SATELLITE

COMMUNICATIONS

9.1 Growth of Satellite Communications in India

9.2 Satellite Earth Stations

9.3 Satellite Based Mobile Telephones

9.4 Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSAT)

9.4.1 VSAT Operators

9.4.2 Factors Influencing Growth

9.4.3 State of the industry

9.4.4 Regulatory Hurdles

9.4.5 Future Outlook

10.0

MARKET ANALYSIS

10.1 The Privatization Process

10.2 The Services Market: Future Outlook

10.3 The Equipment Market: Future Outlook

10.4 Analysis of Major Foreign Companies in India (Service Providers)

10.4.1 AIF Telecommunications Fund

10.4.2 AirTouch

10.4.3 American Insurance Group (AIG)

10.4.4 AT&T

10.4.5 British Telecom (BT)

10.4.6 Comsat

10.4.7 Easycall International

10.4.8 First Pacific Company (Hong Kong)

10.4.9 Korea Mobile Telecom

10.4.10 MWC Mauritius, and PCM Mauritius

10.4.11 NYNEX

10.4.12 Swiss Telecom PTT

10.4.13 Telia AB

10.4.14 Telstra Corporation Limited

10.4.15 US West

10.4.16 ViaSat Inc.

10.5 Analysis of Major Foreign Companies in India (Equipment & Manufacturing)

10.5.1 Alcatel Alsthom

10.5.2 Ericsson

10.5.3 Lucent Technologies

10.5.4 Motorola

10.5.5 NEC

10.5.6 Nokia

10.5.7 Northern Telecom Limited (Nortel)

10.5.8 Phillips

10.5.9 Samsung Electronics Company (SEC)

10.5.10 Scientific Atlanta

10.5.11 Siemens Limited

10.6 Analysis of major Indian telecom companies

10.6.1 Bharti Enterprises

10.6.2 Electronics Corporation of India (ECIL)

10.6.3 Indian Telephone Industries (ITI)

10.6.4 Reliance Industries

10.6.5 Punjab Wireless Systems Limited (Punwire)

10.6.6 Shyam Telecom

10.6.7 The Birla Group

10.6.8 The Tata Group

LIST OF CONTACTS

LIST OF TABLES

E.1 Market for services

E.2 Equipment Market: Value-Added Services & Bulk Users

1.1 Population categories

1.2 Telephone Lines and Television Sets per 100 Households

2.1 The Indian Economy

3.1 Liberalization of the Telecommunications Sector

4.1 Investment required and sources of financing for cellular services (US$ million)

5.1 Cellular Service Categories

5.2 Cellular Operators in the Metros

5.3 Main Statewide Cellular Operators

5.4 A Comparison of Cellular Rates Across Asia (US$)

5.5 Equipment Orders for Circle-Wide Networks

5.6 Schedule for payment of license fees in the metros (approx. US$)

5.7 License fees for regional circles (US$ million)

5.8 Cellular subscribers in regional circles, October 1997

6.1 WLL field trials in India

7.1 Paging Operators (City-wise)

7.2 Paging Operators

8.1 Operators (Service Name) by city

10.1 Services Market

10.2 Equipment Market (Value-Added Services & Bulk Users)

10.3 Equipment for New Services/Technologies

10.4 Equipment Orders for Cellular Networks (Alcatel.)

10.5 Equipment Orders for Cellular Networks (Ericsson)

10.6 Equipment Orders for Cellular Networks (Lucent Tech.)

10.7 Equipment Orders for Cellular Networks (Motorola)

10.8 Equipment Orders for Cellular Networks (Nokia)

10.9 Equipment Orders for Cellular Networks (Siemens)

LIST OF FIGURES

E.1 Demand forecast for cellular subscribers

E.2 Project growth in paging subscribers

1.1 Map of India

1.2 Northern Region

1.3 Southern Region

1.4 Western Region

1.5 Eastern Region

2.1 Industrial Growth (%)

2.2 Fiscal Deficit as a Percentage of GDP

3.1 Organizational Structure of Telecommunications

3.2 Proposed Structure of DoT

5.1 Telecommunication Circles for Cellular Services

5.2 Cellular Handset Market Share by Price Range

5.3 Legal Handset Market Shares, February 1998

5.4 Legal Handset Market Share, June 1996

5.5 Cellular Subscribers and Handset Gray Market Share, June 1996

5.6 World 1 Network, as of August 1996

5.7 Global Connect Network

5.8 Growth in cellular subscribers (December 1996 - December 1997)

5.9 Demand forecast for cellular subscribers

5.10 Cellular subscribers in the four metros

5.11 Cellular subscribers in the four metros by operator, October 1997

5.12 Cellular subscribers in regional circles, October 1997

7.1 Paging operators in select cities

7.2 Distribution of pagers, May 1997

7.3 Total Number of Pagers per Provider: March 31, 1996

7.4 Projected growth in pagers

9.1 ICO System

9.2 Call Routing

9.3 VSAT market share (Shared Hubs), August 1997