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Center for Telecom Management & Studies (CTMS)

INDIA. NAMASKAR. 你好. Center for Telecom Management & Studies (CTMS). By Dr T.H. Chowdary Director, Center for Telecom Management & Studies Fellow: Tata Consultancy Services & Satyam Computer Services * Chairman, Pragna Bharati (Intellect India), AP

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Center for Telecom Management & Studies (CTMS)

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  1. INDIA NAMASKAR 你好 Center for Telecom Management & Studies (CTMS) By Dr 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., Bombay T: +91 (40) 2784-6137/6667-1191(O) F: +91 (40) 2789-6103/6667-1111 (O) thc@satyam.com Presentation # IA C.T.M.S OVER VIEW At BUPT, Beijing on Monday, the 15th October, 2007

  2. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  3. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  4. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  5. INDIA How Sustained • Corporate Membership (Rs. 5000 /$125); life-time) • Interest on Deposits • Savings from conduct of Seminars • Donors S359A_Oct 07

  6. INDIA 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) S359A_Oct 07

  7. TCS & SatyamWhose FELLOW I am S359A_Oct 07

  8. INDIA Dhanyawad:Thank You S359A_Oct 07

  9. INDIA JCTMS/ICTs & SocietyFree, Fair and FearlessA rain-bow of subjects1992 thro 2007 S359A_Oct 07

  10. INDIA 1992 • The Indian Telegraph Act • Telecommunications for the Nation Benefits of Competition • Financing & Pricing of Telecommunications • Telecoms and Political Parties • National Telecommunications Policy. S359A_Oct 07

  11. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  12. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  13. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  14. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  15. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  16. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  17. INDIA 1998 • Telecom Accounting Rates • Telecom User’s Group of India • I.P.Telephony • A Telecom University • I.S.P Licences at last S359A_Oct 07

  18. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  19. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  20. INDIA 2001 • Internet for the Masses • Public Service Broadcasting • Destroying PSU Wealth – Union Style • Approach to the 10th Plan for Telecommunications • The Convergence Bill S359A_Oct 07

  21. INDIA 2002 • Three Cheers to Sri Promote Mahajan • Rob Subscribers and Reward Staff: BSNL • Bridging the Digital Divide • Tariff Re-Balancing S359A_Oct 07

  22. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  23. INDIA 2004 • Reliance and the Mullahs • International Calls “Treated” as Local Calls • Telecom Equipment Production in India S359A_Oct 07

  24. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  25. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  26. INDIA 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 S359A_Oct 07

  27. INDIA 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 3286. 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) S359A_Oct 07

  28. INDIA Dhanyawad:Thank You S359A_Oct 07

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