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Abstract
After decades of very modest growth, telecom in India has taken off. While liberalisation of telecom sector created the conditions, the key to this take off has been a conscious effort in India to drive down the capital expenditure (CAPEX) of telecom infrastructure which made telecom affordable to large sections of Indian people. This paper discusses the role that Indian and Chinese telecom companies have played towards this reduction of per-line CAPEX and identifies technologies still dominated by the West. Telecom is now set to grow rapidly and India would achieve 200 million connections in less than a decade. However, this optimist situation is still, pretty much confined to urban areas. It is the growth of telecom and Internet infrastructure in rural areas, that have much greater potential. But harnessing of this potential requires special efforts. This paper presents a glimpse of how this could be made possible.
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Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Ashok Jhunjhunwala received his BTech from IIT Kanpur, India, in 1975, and his MS and PhD from the University of Maine in 1977 and 1979 respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 1971 to 1981, he was on the faculty at Washington State University, and since 1981 he has been at MT Madras. He is a professor and co-founder of the TeNeT Group at IIT Madras, His principal areas of interest include Telecommunications, Computer Networks and Fiber Optics. He is on the Board of many companies including BSNL, VSNL, Shyam Telecom, HTL and Polaris. He was awarded the Padmashri in 2002 for distinguished service in Science, Engineering and Telecommunications. His other awards include H Firodia Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award and the Vikram Sarabai Research Award.