“Standards and IPR issues”
Industry Perspective
Sanjeev Kakkar
Chief Strategy Officer
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Indian Telecom Services Sector
– An overview

India is the world’s second largest network with a
subscriber base of 914 Mn
URBAN
Subscriber Base : 605.78Mn
Tele-density :
166.93 %
RURAL
Subscriber Base : 308.81 Mn
Tele-density : 36.76%
BROADBAND PENETRATION
Subscriber Base : 12.98 Mn
Average Monthly Growth Rate : 1.03%
Source : TRAI Website
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Telecom Equipment Market
Despite this tremendous growth of services sector, the
presence of Indian telecom equipment manufacturing
is dismal.
“Indian Products” contributes just 2-3 % share of the
total demand for telecom equipment
Year
Indian
Demand (Bn
USD))
Indian Products (Mn USD)
Indian Products as %
of Total Demand
2007-08
11.756
200
2%
2008-09
12.059
240
2%
2009-10
10.953
280
3%
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Five Years from Now
Demand for telecom equipment is
expected to be Rs 2,50,000 Crore
(Approx USD 50 Billion ) by Year 2017
to meet the anticipated subscriber
growth
- Dept of Telecom
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If things don’t change
Telecom Import
will surpass the Oil Import bill
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Govt Vision - Draft National Telecom Policy-11
 Govt recognizes the urgent need to promote
indigenous research and development, IPR
creation and to enhance manufacturing of
domestic equipment in the country for the
inclusive growth of telecom sector.
 Has set the target of achieving 80 % of total
Indian telecom sector demand through
domestic manufactured equipment with a value
addition of 65% by year 2020.
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Landscape of
Telecom Equipment Industry
is undergoing a paradigm shift
Ready to take the Challenge!!
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Telecom Equipment Industry-Current
Scenario
• In knowledge based Global economy India
is heading to play increasingly important
role in this segment.
• Large talent pool
• Strong competence
• Urge to move up in the value chain
• Desire for technology self reliance
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Current Scenario – Contd.
• Huge projected domestic demand can
primarily be met through innovative
product and solutions meeting local Indian
requirements /challenges
•Unconnected India has peculiar
challenges :
• Demographics
• Unavailability of Infrastructure (no
grid supply)
• Affordability
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Current Scenario – Contd.
• There are many domestic success stories
in high tech telecom product development
and expected to grow many fold with
upcoming policy support from Govt.
• Specialized SMEs are establishing
themselves in evolving technologies.
• Strong R&D base in Indian Academic
Institutes i.e IITs , IIScs , etc
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Industry focus
• Priority to develop and commercialize telecom
products and solutions meeting short term market
needs (12th Five year Plan Targets) :
• Based on established technologies and existing
standards.
• With incremental addition of Indian specific
needs.
• Innovation and out of box thinking to meet
huge untapped bottom of pyramid market to
provide affordable and sustainable network.
• IPR generation for telecom standards for evolving
technologies.
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VNL _ Innovation
 End to End GSM based
infrastructure solution for
affordable and sustainable
service provisioning in rural
and unconnected.
 Highly power efficient
 Runs on Renewable
energy
 Provides Voice and Data
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National SDO – Industry Perspective/IPR
Policy
 To drive consensus on national requirements.
 Facilitate access to the Indian Industry in
International standards development
organizations.
 For incorporation of Indian specific
requirements in international standards.
 Promotion of Indian IPRs in international
standards, essential standards
 IPR Policy must take into account , industry’s
maturity, its aspirations and national vision.
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Thank you.
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