Kanimozi still in Tihar .. many more to go ..sleepless nights for Telecom operators in India

TIHAR has become an ICONIC place since last some months ,
many high profile politicians , bureaucrats and corporates have been there for world biggest scam 2G spectrum scam .
Kani is an ideal example of how dramatically things can change at gods mercy
Till last month she had been a MLA , owner of TV channel and big political background enjoying every benefit of power.
Now , with Anna and then RAMDEV revolution UPA ship is sinking ,and in state politics with Jayalalitha coming in power there is no rest for high profile suspects of 2G scam.
many big names frequently visiting the TIHAR someone for meeting who is there inside and someone to stay there.
But ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,after all .............. 'there is no ray of hope looking for Indian Telecom (ICT) industry .

Still many operators higher management and politicians are having sleepless nights because no one knows ...who Will be next ..
and some are in worry of in this over regulated market what worst government can make for their political benefit which will wipe out small margins which are there in market today .

Worldwide operators talking about bringing this virtual world to even closer , with IT reducing cost and life cycle of products and services with ease of use....

CRISIS in INDIAN TELECOM Industry at the time when world is moving with speed of HSPA and LTE

Hello All
After long time writing

with Industry i m too moving from Telecom and IT to ICT
now getting involved with IT systems for Telecom .

In Last two months there is not single day when there is no news in times about 2G scam in INDIA. Every day there are new things coming out , from Ministers , secretaries,and CO and CTOs of small and large Telecom companies everyone has been under scanner. Now the reach and depth of this scam has increased so much that it may be an one of the biggest scam in the world all time.

The correcting actions and investigation by government and its agencies is like as always RED TAPE work. So there is very less hope that government will be doing something constructive in near term for the industry .
And biggest dilemma is that , exactly the same with 3G and MNP coming in with fierce competition operators are literally bleeding to maintain and continue with current operations and processes.

So , As 4G or broadband spectrum auction has also takenplace ,,,, we are expecting good boost in wireless speed s which can actually will give the high speed experience on wireless to user
as current CDMA and WCDMA are actually not meeting to expectation of end users for speed thing.


And operators should realise that conventional telecom business concepts investing thoussands of crores in network , spectrum and infrastrcuture has been over.
Now they should consolidate and with advancement in IP world for communication protocols , and Radio access for speed, operators have to focus on adding value to the customer rather than acting as dumb pipe .

I think "THATS THE MANTRA FOR SUCCESS IN INDIAN TELECOM INDUSTRY TODAY "

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 ?