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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)
Presentation # IA C.T.M.S OVER VIEW At BUPT, Beijing on Monday, the 15th October, 2007
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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
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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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