Center for Telecom Management & Studies (CTMS) By Dr T.H. Chowdary Director, Center for Telecom Management & Studies Fellow: Tata Consultancy Services

Center for Telecom Management & Studies (CTMS)

ByDr T.H. Chowdary

•Director, Center for Telecom Management & Studies• Fellow: Tata Consultancy Services & Satyam Computer Services

* Chairman, Pragna Bharati (Intellect India), AP* Former Information Technology Adviser, Government of A.P

Chairman & Managing Director Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd., BombayT: +91 (40) 2784-6137/6667-1191(O) F: +91 (40) 2789-6103/6667-1111 (O)

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C.T.M.S

• Founded: 1988

• Objective: Intellectual campaign to demonopolise; corporatise & privatise; corporatise & privatize telecoms; competition; Independent Statutory Regulation Consumer Interests: QOS, Choice; Company Response; Consultation.

• Work Program: Talks, Seminars, workshops, Round Tables; Memoranda, Policy papers inclusion in Manifestos of political parties; Deposition before Parliaments Committees; FICCI, CII drawn into the movement

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C.T.M.S

• Draft Bills ( TRAI….) & Policies ( NTP-’94,’99…)• Membership of (a) National Task Force on I.T & Software (b) Government of India’s Committee to amend

ITA• I.T Adviser GOAP• Publication of the monthly journal JCTMS/ICTs

and Society

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Remaining Tasks• Disinvestment of BSNL & MTNL• Winding up Telecom Commission• National Mission to bring forth Indian “Bell Labs” & creation of IP • Manufacturing (to have the likes of HUAWI, ZTE)• Quality of Services• Public Internet Kiosks (PITICs…) like ISD/STD booths• Winding down: Revenue shares, entrée fees, spectrum auction/bids

for 3G• Societal concerns about mobile telephones/Internet; life styles and

work methods• Evolution of an Information/knowledge Society – Policies &

Programs

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How Sustained

• Corporate Membership (Rs. 5000 /$125); life-time)

• Interest on Deposits

• Savings from conduct of Seminars

• Donors

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We are an ICT Think Tank

• To realise

Communicate for work

Commute for pleasure

Haath haath mein telephone

(A telephone in every one’s hand)

Gaon gaon mein Internet Kiosk

(An Internet Kiosk in every village)

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TCS & SatyamWhose FELLOW I am

No. of employees

2006-07 sales in mln $

No. of countries where they operate and no. of offices

No. of cities where they operate in India

Founded when

TCS

(The first largest software company)

One lakh + 4.3 bln $ • More than 50 countries

• more than 175 offices across the globe.

17 cities

Over 85 offices

1968

Satyam Computer Service Ltd.

(The fourth largest software company)

42,000 + 7.57 bln $ 60 + ( 25 time zones)

31 1987


Dhanyawad:Thank You

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JCTMS/ICTs & SocietyFree, Fair and FearlessA rain-bow of subjects

1992 thro 2007

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1992

• The Indian Telegraph Act • Telecommunications for the Nation Benefits of

Competition• Financing & Pricing of Telecommunications • Telecoms and Political Parties • National Telecommunications Policy.

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1993

• Bring in the Telecom Regulator.

• Telephone Rate Rises. The Hidden Intentions

• Telecoms & Human Development

• Telecom Rate-Rises- A fraud on Subscribers

• Local Telephone Service- Natural Monopoly or

Competition.

• Independent Regulation

• Alternative to DOT's Corporatization / Privatisation

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1994

• Can Telephone Companies Lose ? • Telephone Service Tax & Surcharge on

delayed payments • Telecom strike - Unjustified &

irresponsible • Licence Conditions for Service Providers • How can Telecom Competition Survive

and Thrive

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1995

• National Telecom Policy and the Customer • Basic Telephone Service Bids • Telecom Tenders - The Risks and Inequities • Licence Fees from Private Telcos • The Spectacle of Telecom Tendering• MTNL- Extinction or Transformation • Private Sector Entry into Indian Telecoms - Its effects on DOT • How justified are the telecom licence fees • Telecoms- Retraining staff is essential Resisting Competition is Reactionary • Telecom Regulatory Authority of India- Who should be there ? • DOT & the challenges of competition • Basic Telephone Licence Fees- Fantabulous • Why Auction the spectrum

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1996

• Distortion of the National Telecom Policy • Telecom Licence Fees Subvert NTP • The Internet Access Monopoly Must End • The Plight of Telecom Employees • C-DOT Triumph and Tragedy • Pricing Radio Spectrum • The TRAI Ordinance Must Lapse • Postalising Telecom Tariffs • Welcome Members of 11th Lok Sabha of India • The Inequity of the Interconnect " Agreement" • Telephony on Internet • Telecom Liberalisation - And Scams Galore • International Call-back-Questionable payment Restrictions • Telephone Users Charter • The Cost and Consequence of Doing Business with DOT

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1997

• The Universal Service Obligations Some Perspectives

• DOT's Wireless Local Loop Tender

• Government in Enterpreneurship and Business

• Spectacular growth of Mobile Telephony

• The Telephone Advisory Committee - An instrument for division of Spoils and distribution of

favours

• FCC is right- VSNL is not

• Is VSNL: A Cry-Baby PSU ?

• Monopoly or Competition

• Overpriced International Telephony

• Injuring the Indian Telecom Industry

• Creating Indian Telecom Manufacturing Champions

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1997…contd..

• WTO and Persisting Monopoly in India • Hail the TRAI • VSNL -BT’s Telecom Hub• Politics and Economics of Telecom Liberalisation in India• Telecom De-monopolisation: Confound and Obstruct• Technology Leads and Policy Lags • Telecoms- Differentiation between Infrastructure and Services • Internet Service Provision (ISP)• Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd ( MTNL) A Corporation – True or False • Indian Technology Ignored – Foreign Equipment Fancied by DOT• Inexpensive Elections Through Information Technology • DOT’s Final, “Final” Concessions to P-Telcos • Telephone Tapping • Universal Service Obligations in Developing Countries • Wireless Local Loop Choices in India

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1998

• Telecom Accounting Rates

• Telecom User’s Group of India

• I.P.Telephony

• A Telecom University

• I.S.P Licences at last

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1999

• Death of Distance and Time

• National Telecom Policy 1999

• Competition in Domestic Long Distance Telephony

• ICT in the Election Manifestos

• I.T Telecoms & Elections

• International Internet Gateways

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2000

• Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, (1997) (Amendment of)

• Telecom User Groups

• I.T. Enabled Services and Telecom Infrastructure

• Global Shortage of IT Professionals- India’s Opportunity

• Telecoms to the Villages

• Paswan’s Populist Gift

• I.T and the Rich –Poor gap

• Telecom Regulation- Quality of Service and Rates

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2001

• Internet for the Masses

• Public Service Broadcasting

• Destroying PSU Wealth – Union Style

• Approach to the 10th Plan for Telecommunications

• The Convergence Bill

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2002

• Three Cheers to Sri Promote Mahajan

• Rob Subscribers and Reward Staff: BSNL

• Bridging the Digital Divide

• Tariff Re-Balancing

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2003

• Universal Access Fund and Administration

• Radio Frequency Spectrum use and Regulation in India

• A Million Mobiles in Andhra Pradesh

• Limited Mobility-Unlimited Troubles

• Convergence and Migration to Unified Multiple Service Telecom Licences

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2004

• Reliance and the Mullahs

• International Calls “Treated” as Local Calls

• Telecom Equipment Production in India

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2005

• The Communist Onslaught on the TRAI and P-Telcos

• ITC’s E-Chaupal

• Pitroda’s Ascent and Decline

• Destruction of the BNSL

• 100 Million Phones

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2006

• People-Oriented Disinvestments in Bharat Sanchar

• How India Neglected Telecom R&D and Manufacturing

• Internet Access Bringing Social Economic Benefits Globally

• Information Society –E-Governance

• Making India a Knowledge Economy-2006

• Rajiv Internet Kiosks

• Money making By Sale of 3G Spectrum

• ICTs and Family Life

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2007

• Who profits by Pivatisation

• Customer Behaviour- Problems

• Taxing the Telephone Service

• Economics of the Internet

• R&D in the Telecom Sector

• Access of Affordability

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CTMS Publications 1. Are You Listening ? (1990) - Pages; 237(The story of his struggles in the DOT to deliver service and not merely administer rules )2. Issues In Telecom De-Monopolisation In India (1999)

- Pages 1703. P-Telcos In India: Why Did India Get Them So Wrong? (2000)

- Pages 7204. ICTs for Classes and Masses ( 2004)

- pages 352 5. India Under Strain (2002) - Pages 328 6. India! Speak Up !!( 2003) -Pages 344 7. India: Explorations(2004) -Pages 3508. In True Conscience (2006) - Pages 314 &

Journals:

1. ICTs and Society (formerly Journal of the CTMS) ( since Jan 1992)

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Dhanyawad:Thank You

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Center for Telecom Management & Studies (CTMS) By Dr T.H. Chowdary Director, Center for Telecom Management & Studies Fellow: Tata Consultancy Services