HAAAAAAPPY NEEEEW YEEEAR 2011

Wish you vary happy new year to all my friends , colleagues and dear one's

thank you for filling various colours in last year of my life ....
and expecting you to do so in coming year to ..



this year will be turning point for the Indian telecom Industry,

-for reaction Indian customer about 3G ,will operators be able to manage balance between revenue and expenditure.

-scam ridden governing systems of country
- reforms taken up by new telecom minister of India

Operational Support Systems

Operational Support Systems are the components that a company — historically this would have been a telephone operator or telco, but now normally called a Communications Service Provider (CSP) — uses to run its network and business. Typical types of activities that count as part of OSS are taking a customer’s order, configuring network components, creating a bill and managing faults.
In the days long gone (i.e. before about 1985) OSS activities were normally done solely by people passing paper around. However, it became plain around that time that much of this activity could be replaced by computers. In the next 5 years or so, the telephone companies created a number of computing systems (or software applications) which automated much of this activity. However, they were typically not linked to each other and therefore often required manual intervention. For example, consider the case where a customer wants to order a new telephone service. The ordering system would take the customer’s details and details of their order, but would not be able to configure the telephone exchange directly – this would be done by a switch management system. So the details of the new service would need to be transferred from the order handling system to the switch management system – and this would normally be done by a technician rekeying the details from one screen into another – a process often referred to as “swivel chair integration”. This was clearly another source of inefficiency, so the focus on the next few years was on creating automated interfaces between the OSS applications – OSS integration. To a large extent, cheap and simple OSS integration remains the goal of most of the Telco’s IT departments to this day.
A brief history of OSS ArchitectureA lot of the work on OSS has been centred on defining its architecture. (To people who don’t work in IT, the concept of an architecture that isn’t about creating buildings may seem strange, but there you are…) Put simply, there are 4 key elements of OSS:
* Processes– the sequence of events
* Data– the information that is acted upon
* Applications– the components that implement processes to manage data
* Technology– how we implement the applications
Early work on defining OSS architecture was done by the ITU-T in its TMN model. This established a 4-layer model of TMN applicable within an OSS :
* Business Management Level(BML)* Service Management Level(SML)* Network Management Level(NML)* Element Management Level(EML)(Note: a fifth level is mentioned at times being the elements themselves, though the standards speak of only four levels) This was a basis for later work. Network management was further defined by the ISO using the FCAPS model – Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security. This basis was adopted by the ITU-T TMN standards as the Functional model for the technology base of the TMN standards M.3000 – M.3599 series. Although the FCAPS model was originally concieved and is applicable for any IT enterprise network, it was adopted for use in the public networks run by telcommunication service providers adhering to ITU-T TMN standards.
The newest stage in OSS architecture work has come with the TMF’s [1] NGOSS programme, which was established in 2000. This established a set of principles that an OSS integration should adopt, along with a set of models that provide standardised approaches. The models include an information model (the Shared Information/Data model, or SID), a process model (the enhanced Telecom Operation Map, or eTOM) and a lifecycle model. The TMF describes NGOSS as
* a “loosely coupled”* distributed* component based architecture
along with functioning application components upon which a Communications Service Provider business can run.
* The components interact through a common information bus* The components can be programmed through the use of a process management tool to control the business processes of the service provider using the functionality provided by the components
The TMF’s work so far has been mainly technology neutral, which therefore implies that there remains considerable work to create a functioning OSS estate from NGOSS principles. However, there are now a number of standardised technology-specific implementations of NGOSS, of which OSS through Java initiative (OSS/J) is one.

3G launch in India and scam ridden DOT

Finally the moment has come for which every Indian (so called ) was waiting launch of 3G ( UMTS ).
Some of the private operators have launched 3G in major circles like Mumbai ,Delhi , etc.
However , does it have brought enough excitement among Indian customer ,is the questions ?

Because there are many fundamental concerns which need to addressed like :

--are operators able to appeal all market segments like youth,professionals, and common man
do they are spending enough on marketing services.
-- does operators have enough applications which will customers use with 3G high speed internet
-- is backend infrastructure ready which need to be changed from age old ss7 ,ISUP to IP .
-- does the networks are upgraded to handle tsunami of data which smartphones will bring

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Gartner also takes "pause " while saying about future of 3G in INDIA

Its once again new chapter of INCREDIBLE INDIA , worlds famous research firm Gartner also taking second look at their research reports "WILL IT BE BOOM OR SHEER FAILURE"
because

• India is too late for 3G ( because more than 100 countries have launched 3G worldwide and in many markets it is matured technology )
• Operators have ended up with paying more than reasonable price for spectrum for UMTS unlike 2G ,because of unique auction method adopted by govt.
• Their are more than 7 operators who have got 3G licences , which is also unique for India
• Government is making compulsion for backward compatibility with GSM (2G) for every 3G operators which is again making things difficult to operators ...
• Are operators ready with new revenue model for data service which will again boost ARPU to recover all this money ( 100000 crore only license fee +capex(infrastructure) + opex).?
• then most important thing is what Indian customer is gonna do with so called "wireless broadband service "are operators are ready with applications and content which is ultimately gonna pay revenue to operators
• Are operators ready to share their revenue with content providers which are gonna completely new industry ?
• AND MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION HOW INDIAN CUSTOMER is gonna accept this new service ,and what farmer in a village of 700 people is gonna do with 3G ?

History of CDMA in INDIA .and future path ...

CDMA(Code Division Mulitple Access) is an war tested technology developed in 1940s by US military for secure communications.
but later after long time in nineties by making fundamental changes in this technology , company called Qualcomm had filed patent in US for using it as wireless communications technology for society first as a WLL (Wireless Local Loop) and later as cellular technology.
It was later standardised by ANSI and 3GPP2 , its first standard published was IS 95(Interim Standard) in 1995 ,Which is also known as IS 41 standards .

So as a US developed technology it is mainly adopted in US and afterwards Japan and some Asian countries like China , Korea with their own local modifications.

However ,In India we can say this technology came as it is in US ,and this came as a WLL (Wireless Local Loop) technology to give basic telecom services economically in Indian market which was aim of NTP 99 ( National Telecom Policy 1999) by government . However with technlogical advancement and some manipulating practices by private operators in India it was became cellular ,in 2003 with order from Indian court in one of the famous case of GSM vs CDMA operators in ,CDMA as declared as a cellular technology like GSM in India .

now in India is a having close to 150 million subscriber base for CDMA , though it is less comapred to GSM ,but it significant .

CDMA , has been mainly provided in Indian operators like BSNL ,Rcom , TTSL, MTS, Shyam Telecom .

CDMA in India has been evloved from

WLL -- Cellular technology (voice ) --- CDMA 2000 ( voice + data ) ---- Advanced CDMA + EVDO (data optimised ) Rev A, and now B ( 6.2 Mbps )

Now ,with aggressive push by Qaulcomm in chipset design their is variety of handsets and datacards are available in market , so operators are pushing it as wireless broadband technology with efficient use of spectrum , operators like Rcom and TTSL are betting big on advanced CDMA for increased voice capacity and data speed with efficient use of available spectrum , so in India CDMA will play good migration path towards LTE .

CDMA vs GSM Evolution in INDIAN market

In Indian Telecom market ,CDMA has got less attention or acceptance on operators and customers front because of its initial stage it had some inconvenience to layman , and GSM came bit early in world market .
However ,in CDMA has its own advantages on technological fronts ,and economical fronts as well for operators ,
this has been visible recent times
because

1) CDMA with latest standards is equally marketable and convenient to layman user like , changing RUIM card and handset , uses of Internet (data), flash SMSs ,USSD .

2) Big Operators who have GSM technology in India are already facing network congestion because of GSMs air inter face limitations that is using TDMA +FDM ,has limited the capacity
at air interface,resulted into, dissatisfaction in customers .

3) To avoid this operators started using more and more carrier frequencies to accommodate more users in crowded areas ,this has came under the scanner of DOT and now these operators have
to pay huge sum of money as a fee for extra uses., despite CDMA operators are at advantage because of inherent advantages of CDMA at air interface ,it can have soft capacity so number of users can be accommodated are more .

4) in data uses on mobile front also

CDMA have come up 1x data ,service which is comparable to GPRS
service in GSM.

despite alll this operators are More favourable to GSM than CDMA why ..............?

3G launch .... in India

As things are unfolding after paying hefty license fees for licence of 3G spectrum,
biggies in market are preparing for launching 3G for early advantage,same time there is bit of murmur about consolidations of small operators after testing water of Indian Market.
Last week RCOM unveiled its first demo trial of mobile TV with 3G .
So now Vodafone and Airtel may be trying hard to launch 3G services ,
But , as operators are excited about 3G
which according to many going to bring
second revolution in Indian Market after 2G evolution
for operators and customer and other stakeholders of the society .

However , to happen all this operators have to be bit more concerned about their technical business model for 3G because this is gonna drastically different than conventional creating "Minute factory " after investing in millions on creating infrastructure ,without sharing much of revenue with content provider or VAS providers.

here operators have to be more open
for
-new revenue models
-new business ideas
-sharing revenues with others
-moving towards ISP role from only TSP
and most importantly
-focusing on new and innovating applications and VAS development which will give then competitive edge in market

Dream called 3G for India ....

Last Month 3G long delayed auctions finally took place ...
the Band Prices which came out of the result of unique auction process by Indian Government ...
are fair or not is the question of research. ...?
But the bigger question than above is
"Does India have lost the train of 3G because of auction delay ?"
Reason behind thinking is that "100 over countries have launched 3G worldwide since IMT 2000 .
In most of countries it have got matured ,and many operators worldwide looking out for viability and feasibility of LTE or Wimax networks (IMS architecture ) , In India we still cant expect commercial 3G by private operators end of this year .
one reason for delay after 3G spectrum may be ban on Chinese vendors for Telecom gear import. In today's worldwide market Chinese vendors Like ZTE and Huawai are gaining bigger share because of their economical ,technological advantages.
Operators will definitely look for as less as investment on network because of huge spectrum prices and to make 3G viable in India.
in such situation Chinese vendors are obvious choice for operators.
So its actually start
of new era.......of In Indian telecom ............................................
Unfolding of one new chapter .......lets hope our dream of having vedio chat by sitting on Beach or Train .

Green Telecom

The word ”Green Telecom” has great importance in today’s world as it is not that known like green offices, green energy, green cities. But if someone closely follows the other going green concepts then one realizes that all these concepts are related to basically use of efficient telecom and ICT (Information & Communication Technology).

With some statistics given below one will come to know why this term has significance.

“Telecom industry was responsible for 245 mega-tonnes of carbon equivalent (Mt CO2e) in 2009, serving about 4.6 billion subscribers. Those figures put the average CO2e emissions per subscriber at about 53 kilograms.”

Despite of above statistics, if we really strive for Green Telecom technologies and concepts then Telecom is the only field which will help to reduce carbon footprint of other industries.

Several key sectors where mobile (Telecom) can contribute to reducing emissions. These are smart transportation and logistics, smart grids and smart meters, smart buildings, and the substitution of high carbon activities such as travel through the use of mobile communications technologies.

Green telecom is a concept of reducing carbon emission by telecom equipments, optimizing equipments for minimizing use of energy, and reducing the cost of operations in telecommunication by environment friendly way. Green telecom is the concept which is evolving to solve the current power and high cost of operation problems faced by Telecom companies. This can be achieved by mainly three ways reducing power consumption at access network side, core network and network operation canters and third is end devices (customer equipments)i.e mobile handset or laptops.

Green telecom is now getting ground in not only in developed countries operator but also in developing countries in different forms and at different levels.

Because the cost of producing green energy sources i.e wind energy, solar energy etc is decreasing day by day and cost of conventional energy is increasing.

As mentioned above this concept can be achieved by three ways, to achieve this various research firms, manufacturers and operators working on this in different ways by innovating the operations and equipments.

At network access part means where the signal is transmitted on air for reaching the customer or last mile connection in wired network. Going green at this part involve using wind and solar energy to meet the electricity demand at tower by antenna and other subsystems.

Many operators and manufacturer are working on this is good way to reduce emission of carbon footprint because at tower (BTS subsystem) requires huge power for transmission of signal with never down mode which requires backups (D.C generators, battery). By using alternative energy sources for tower sites and local exchanges which are remotely located is an ideal solution.

Ericsson has installed such 300 green sites in remote areas and they are hoping this number will surge in 2010.

Huawei and ZTE are working on consolidating the RAN (Radio Access Network) into single unit which reduces reality cost by 70% and 50% energy consumption.

In core network (Backbone) of any operator is an opportunity to reduce energy consumption. Because core network consists high transmission links, data centers and switching centers which also requires high power not to forget cooling systems which contribute major portion of total cost of operators.

In the past, equipment providers specified equipment operating temperatures of up to 25°C. But 45°C is now common, enabling operators to reduce the overall energy consumption of the BTS by using passive cooling (fresh air) as opposed to active cooling (air conditioning),” the report pointed out.

On the handset side, vendors have so far been slow to introduce recycling programs and even slower when it comes to green handsets. While there are several ‘green’ handsets made from recycled material today, or handsets that come with a built-in solar charger, they are far and few in between. At the same time, there are initiatives to reduce the packaging of handsets but that is also in the nascent stages.

One of the aspects is that many of areas worldwide facing pwer problem which is reducing ARPU for operators. By giving green solution for handsets Digicell has increased its revenue by 14%.

Governmental support in establishing a common framework to measure the mobile industry’s energy and environmental performance, for example, by aligning national and regional methodologies with those being developed by ETSI and ITU in conjunction with the mobile industry and other private sector players. Such measurements are an essential.

GSMA (Global systems for mobile communications Association) has given recently its green manifesto which says operators will reduce carbon emission by 40% by2020.

“After all, there’s more at stake in the fight against climate change than more profit – it’s the planet and our future we are talking about”.

Natrang

Just two days before

I have seen Natrang marathi movie .
This is ultimate and fabulous film .
this is beginning of new era in marathi movie industry .
subject of movie is close to reality of marathi cultural play knwon as TAMASHA
which is now a days lost its glory and direction.
Atul kulkarni
in main cast acted very well
and he will definitely get credit of that
thank u

HAPPY NEW YEAR >>>>>2010

I wish all of you very very prosperous ,happy, joyful, ......NEW year ....

we all wish that this year may bring recovery in market

and all the economies would be flourishing

as before for creating WEALTH FOR INVESTORS .

The Big Trend Telecom services

• Thanks to the boom in smart phones, mobile application stores and mobile video, managing data traffic will be the most pressing issue for carriers in 2010. Freeing up bandwidth without impairing service will be a challenge, especially since the Federal Communications Commission has asked operators to treat all mobile content on their networks equally. Expect carriers to attack the problem from multiple angles, then publicize their particular solution as the smartest
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