Internet Induces Innovation
By
DR T.H. CHOWDARY
Director: Center for Telecom Management and Studies
Fellow: Tata Consultancy Services
Chairman: Pragna Bharati (intellect India )
Former: Chairman & Managing Director
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited &
Information Technology Advisor,
Government of Andhra Pradesh
T: +91(40) 6667-1191(O) 2784-3121®
F: +91 (40) 6667-1111
hanuman.chowdary@tcs.com
Talk@ Institution of Engineers:
17 May 2015
The Connected World (1)
• Every two days we create as much digital content as
we did from the dawn of civilisation until year 2003.
That is 5 Exabytes ( i.e 5 followed by 18 zeros) with
only 2 bln on the Net at end 2013 out of possible 6 bln
people of the world’s 7 + bln people.
• 100 hours of You Tube footage uploaded every mnt in
Y2014 ( up from 60 hrs in 2012)
• 6 bln hours of video footage watched every month
• 23 bln text messages sent every day ( 6 bln in USA
alone)
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The Connected World (2)
• Connections world-wide to Internet increased
from 350 mln in y 2000 to 2 bln by 2013
• Mobiles rose form 750 mln in Y 2000 to 6 bln
by 2013 & 6.5 bln by 2014 for a world
population of 7.5 bln
• 250 mln Internet users in India of which 180
mln (72%) are mobiles .Mumbai has 12.5 mln
internet connections.
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Internet of Things (IOT)
• Think how much information would flow & be stored
when
• 6 bn people connect to the Internet.
• 70 bln things ( A/Cs, Microwaves, TVs, refrigerators,
burgler alarms…etc) connect to the Internet of Things
(IOT)
• The Internet is the outcome of organizations like
DARPA (USA), Tim Berners Lee (CERN) Nicholas
Negroponte of MIT, Winton CERF of the IETF and Craig
Munde (Internet Security) of Microsoft; John McAfee
(anti-virus soft-ware pioneer) and others….
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Telcos created the Infrastructure of
ICTs (1)
• P-Telcos have invested about Rs. 4 lakh crores
• DOT: got = 3.5 lakh crores by way of spectrum
sales, spectrum usage and revenue shares
• 2010& 2015 Spectrum auctions yielded Rs.
1,10,000 cr & Rs, 1,00,000 cr respectively
• P-Telcos: have a debt of = 3,50,000 crores
• BSNL/MTNL have accumulated losses of about
Rs. 40,000 crores
• Telco revenues are over Rs. 3,00,000 crores /yr
compared to Rlys’ Rs. 1,45,000cr
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Telcos created the Infrastructure (2)
• 2015 spectrum auction produced
Rs. 1,10,000 cr
May 2010 Mukesh Jio bought 4G
Spectrum at over Rs. 40,000 cr
5 yr after, no launch!
• 90% of mobile users keep phone, 90% of time
within 3 ft
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Broad Band
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64kbp → 1 Mega → 10M → 1 Giga
Increase → 15.6
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600,000 Km of Optical Fiber cables
600,000 Cell Towers
NOFN @ Rs. 25,000 cr to connect 250,000
Panchayat villages
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What the Internet Brought
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E-Mail
Electronic libraries & e-books
Electronic Encyclopedia (Wikipedia), print edition Encyclopedia Britannica folded
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E-governance, e-sevas
EMRI, e-VAIDYA
Internet Universities (eg. Phoenix in Arizona-USA); e- Education & e-Classrooms
E-banking; e-reservations
E-commerce; e-examinations
E-ballots; video conferencing
Social networks: Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, Linked…
E-Surveillance- GPS
“You can run, but you can’t escape”
–Ronald Reagan
Mobile phones- Multifunctional, supplanting PCs; reduced size, weight & price,
increasingly energy efficient and camera, GPS - McAfee episode
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Evil on the Internet
• Viswamitra created a heavenly space ( Trisanku)
• Internet has created the Cyber space – borderless, ubiquitous,
ungoverned
• Brought under-surveillance and censorship and blockades by some
governments (China, Russia, Iran, S.Arabia, N.Korea…)
• Hacking by Hactivists, individuals, vigilantes and governments.
• Terrorists, smugglers, drug peddlers, traffickers in humans use it
• Whistle blowers – Julian Assange, William Snowden…
• Identity Theft/privacy loss
• Permanency of Data - Chithra Gupta
• Cyber war (China, USA, Israel, Russia, Iran)
• Cold war replaced by code war
• Security & Defence
• It requires more than 10 mln lines of code to build security; yet it is
vulnerable. It requires only 125 liens of code to breach the security
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Read the Book
• The New Digital Age
Reshaping the Future of People
Nations & Business
By
Eric Schmidt: Executive Chairman Google
Jared Cohen, Director Google Ideas
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Dhanyawad:
Thank You
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