Unfolding 2011 for Indian Telecom Industry getting bad to worst

As the 2011 ,is getting unfolded , the things are getting worsen for the overall Telecom industry in India. Year started with resignation of or A Raja's former Minister of DOT in UPA Govt.
followed by his arrest .
Now supreme court has asked govt. to setup new separate court for hearing of 2G scam case and has asked CBI to act against everyone found guilty from top notch corporates to PM , and bureaucrats. Followed by this order some officials of some service providers are taken in custody and some are enquired for information of beneficiaries.

As new telecom minister and PM are taking steps against all wrongdoings , operators and promoters are getting sleepless nights ,because since last 10 years as telecom industry has developed in India , most of the operators have benefited in some way and some have been deprived from opportunity.

Mr.Sibal new Telecom minister has announced 100 days plan to decide on new telecom policy and regulatory architecture.

In this remains to be seen is how Kapil Sibal strikes balance between stern action against wrongdoing by operators and future growth of Telecom industry , because most of the operators are already bleeding with debt ridden balance sheet , minute models death for voice and still very low ARPU(Average Revenue Per User ) s with data services.

As now 3G is lanuched by most of the operators thier is not much buzz in customer about 3G services , reasons for this may be less marketing , or operators are not ready with relevent applications or market is not that matter , this can be topic of research.

Now with launch of 3G and MNP thier is some churn in markets , but it will be known exactly who is getting benefitted as time passes

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 ..............?