Happy Deepawali
- Wednesday, 26 October 2011 10:14
- Written by Puneet Jain
We wish you a very Happy Diwali and a Prosperous year ahead.
May Lord Ganesh and Goddess Lakshmi showers lots of new smartphones on you in the coming year.
Happy Diwali.
Telecom Event : VAS ASIA 2011
- Category: Telecom Events
- Friday, 08 July 2011 09:08
- Written by MobiGyaan Team
The 10th edition of VAS Asia, a telecom event focused solely on the Value Added Services domain, 10th VAS Asia 2011 is slated to happen on 8th of July 2011 at The Le Meridien, New Delhi.
Mr. Jason Stirling, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific, Nuance Communications & Mr. Stuart Sharpe, Senior Director, APAC Sales Engineering, Nuance Communications will be delivering the presentations at the event besides showcasing their latest line of products.
Focusing on Nuance’s participation at the event Mr. Jason Stirling, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific, Nuance Communications says, “With the roll-out of 3G services in India, the VAS industry is poised to witness a paradigm shift in content offerings as well as in Value Added Services consumption patterns of consumers. This truly represents an inflection point, not only for companies who power Value Added Services, but for the entire telecom eco-system in India.”
“We are really proud to partner the 10th VAS ASIA 2011, which is one of most awaited and popular telecom events in India, and wish the event all the success,” he added.
The event is another edition in the series of successful VAS events conducted by Bharat Exhibitions (BE), a company which is engaged in offering interactive platform to the Telecom professionals in the form of conference events since last one decade.
BE takes credit in initiating this exciting trend and allured Telecom industry’s attention towards the rising era of VAS in India, prior to which the term VAS was behind the curtains for professionals working under telecommunications gamut. With the advent of VAS Asia series of events in the year 2004, the industry realised the actual potential and future of telephony services lying in the hands of Value Added Services.
Mr. Shashi Dharan- Managing Director, Bharat Exhibitions the organizer of VAS ASIA 2011, says, "VAS Asia 2011 will help in strategizing a strong vision for MVAS Landscape in India as it is an ideal stage between the key influencers and decision makers under one roof. This year's event will develop innovative marketing tools for boosting the penetration of VAS adoption in the 3G Ready India. The renowned industry professionals from across the world would share their knowledge."
The 10th edition will be offering its attendees with deep understanding of Mobile games, location tracking, mobile banking, mobile advertising, content security, Worldwide Trends in VAS & the implications for India, Future Models for mobile content commerce & distribution, The Role of Aggregators, Labels & third party content providers, The role of Network Equipment Vendors - who need to understand what features service providers need and tune themselves in the Indian Environment, 3G as a tool for boosting Mobile VAS usage in India, Expectations from Handset Manufacturers for introducing innovative Mobile VAS service offerings & helping in growing the industry.
10th edition – VAS Asia 2011 Conference & Exhibition will attract over 1000 delegates from across APAC & India. Additionally it will have over 25 senior CEO level speakers who will address the action packed gathering. The conference will draw delegates from - Telecom Service Providers, Cellular Service Providers – GSM & CDMA,VAS Technology & Platform Companies, Content Aggregators, Content Owners, Next Generation Mobile Content Solution Providers; Telecom Associations & Regulators; Handset Manufacturers – GSM & CDMA; Portal Providers; Consulting and Research Organisations; Venture Capitalists; Multimedia Service Providers; Software Developers; System Integrators; Security Providers; Entertainment & Electronic Media; Mobile Internet Applications & Solution Developers; Smart Card Manufacturers, Ministries & Regulatory; Service Organizations.
Telecom Event : Workshop on Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management and Revenue Risk Management
- Category: Telecom Events
- Tuesday, 14 June 2011 12:41
- Written by MobiGyaan Team
iVyn TECHNOLOGIES are organising a Workshop, in Gurgaon, New Delhi (NCR), on Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management and Revenue Risk Management. The Course Director of this course is Mark Johnson, who is Founder and Executive Chairman of TRMG. He is having 30 years of rich experience in revenue risk management and communications security. He has the past 20 years working full time in the telecom fraud and revenue assurance arena. As a former Head of Network Fraud Control for Cable & Wireless plc he helped to guide revenue risk operations in Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America, primarily through the central design and development of leakage detection applications.
Mark is a member of the UK Fraud Advisory Panel (FAP) and City Resilience and Security Networks (CSARN), as well as being a leading industry speaker and thinker on evolving communications and online security risks.
The Workshop will help to
- Understand how revenue loss occurs within telecom operators, in terms of internal and external frauds and revenue leakage in systems and processes
- Recognize the key symptoms of revenue leakage, as well as the manifestation of technical and non-technical risks
- Discover key strategies that every operator can adopt to eliminate leakage and improve profitability
- Gain expertise in assessing revenue risk exposure and in working with operational teams to devise improved business processes or other solutions
- Assure completeness, accuracy, timelines and security along the entire length of the revenue management chain
The Workshop will benefit Auditors, Finance teams, Business teams from RA, FM and Risk management, Operation management teams, Service Integrators, Risk Managers, Telecom Decision-Makers, Value Added Service Providers, Strategy and Planning teams and Individual aspirants of FM and RA domain
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MVAS to touch Rs. 48,000 crore by 2015, cited Industry experts
- Category: Telecom Events
- Saturday, 05 February 2011 11:07
- Written by Puneet Jain
With new revenue stream generated, the MVAS sector is set to touch Rs, 48,000 crore by 2015, cited some of the leading telecom operators and technology organisations congregated today at 9th VAS INDIA 2011 international conference held at Taj Lands End, Mumbai, organized by Bharat Exhibitions.The conference kick-started with the launch of the VAS portal ‘Insight VAS’ and was inaugurated by Mr. Prashant Gokarn, Head of 3G, Reliance Communciations. Sharing their perspective on the MVAS landscape in 3G enabled India, the keynote speakers brought to light some of the issues and opportunities hidden in this game.
Commenting on the advertising perspective in MVAS Industry, Mr. Shashi Sinha, CEO, Loadestar said, “With the advent of 3G, advertising potential is big. But the trick is to personalise the content that is being dished out. More competition is sure to drive down prices but the need of the hour is not to be restrictive but have an aggregate. Advertising and content is surely set to integrate from 3 to 5 years from now.”
Mr. Kunal Bajaj, Managing Director, Analysys Mason went on to add, “There are three focus areas, which are enhancing user experience, launch of new services and service building wherein operators can provided end to end solutions for the consumers. Slowly but steadily, operators will have to overcome pricing issues and work towards network optimization.”
Mr. NK Yadav, Principal General Manager – VAS, BSNL further cited, “The switch over from 2G and 3G needs to be taken care of. The customer experience cannot be spoilt on any cost. BSNL has been an early starter and the pick up is just getting better and better. While last year we had 1 million customers, today the figures are around 2.5 million subscribers. Data usage has increased 6 times and addition of post paid customers have increased since 3G. Broadly, the focus can be targeted at two categories, one being the network related issue and the other being handset related issues. From the consumer side, the active users are currently only 10%. With more awareness and consumer education, the usage will significantly grow.”
Entertainment which has always gripped the nation through the years and emerging technologies, will play a major role in MVAS as well. Mr Jai Maroo, Director, Shemaroo Entertainment said, “This is an exciting time for the content industry. There is a sheer variety of content to share beyond Bollywood and celebritites too. We ourselves serve around 27 languages and the target is to go for more than 40 languages. Truly there has been a lot of hype, but I think we are still not there. Our eco-system is not yet ready. But assuming we ready the matrix soon, what will drive the market is simplicity of access and navigation, relevant and improved content and consumer education.”
Shri Peeyush Agarwal, Chief General Manager (Wireless Services), MTNL shared informative statistics with the guests and brought out different elements that can benefit the people through VAS services generated with 3G. “India is uniquely positioned, M-Banking and M-Retail will be great revenue boosters. Through M-banking, different services of banking can be done on the mobile, almost negating the requirement of going to a physical bank. M-Retail will equip consumers and vendors to buy and sell more easily. Such innovative services will be a great boon to the people.”
While its not just about the operator services, the devices also play a big role. Mr. Sunzay Passari, Executive Vice President- VAS & Devices, Essar Telecom Business Group elaborated, “ The capability of a device cannot be ignored and the capabilities of 3G and 4G is hugely different. Computing network is progressive and essentially we need data hungry devices. Infact mobile is just one of the devices. There is little difference between what a mobile, tablet, notepad, PC can do. It is a challenge for the operators and service providers to provide content to cater their respective markets.
The shift in dominance of players have also changed, especially in the past year. Many home grown companies have eaten a huge share of players like Nokia and Motorola. But we are in an interesting era, growth of devices and services alike will boost the industry.”
Lastly, Shri TR Dua, Principal Advisor, Cellular Operators Association of India emphasised, “Telecom industry has grown at a time of global economic slowdown. This hints at unbounded success for the sector. Further with inclusive growth, differentiation and delivering customer demand and government mandating, there is a huge gap that is waiting to be filled by operators and service providers. There are some emerging categories like M-Agriculture, M-governance, M-Law and E-Judiciary which will help the common man in cities and rural areas.”
The event was concluded by Mr. Shashidharan – Managing Director, Bharat Exhibitions,“ VAS is everywhere today. There is tremendous potential for all service providers and operators. With smartphones making its way into a broader consumer base, we have a huge challenge in front of us. Managing data, network, infrastructure with constant advancement is the key to survive.”
Telecom Event : 7th Broadband Tech India 2010
- Category: Telecom Events
- Thursday, 18 November 2010 11:00
- Written by Puneet Jain
India’s only event on Broadband for promoting broadband in fast growing Indian Telecom Industry is scheduled to be held on November 19, 2010 at Le Meridien, New Delhi. The event Broadband Tech INDIA 2010 is organized by Bharat Exhibitions & supported by DOT – Department of Telecom & DIT – Department of Information Technology & DIT – Department of Information Technology. 7th Broadband Tech INDIA 2010 will offer the business platform in the country to conduct business & develop broadband penetration strategies in Indian Telecom Industry.The 7th edition of the event will attract business delegates from Fixed line and mobile operator, Broadband service provider, Equipment Manufacturers, Internet service provider, Wireless internet service provider, Internet content provider, Broadcasters & IPTV license holder, Content licensor and distributor, Telecom regulator, Telecom & IT Ministry, Ministry of Defence,Systems/network integrator, Utility Broadband Providers, Systems vendor, Device/terminal maker, Standards development group, Video solution provider& Application developers
Global majors scheduled to be engaged in Broadband service offerings are part of the event (Nokia Siemens Networks, BSNL, UTStarcom, Teracom,ZTE, HCL,Sterlite, Telcordia, Alcatel Lucent & Shaildhar Telecom Services). ISPAI – Internet Service Providers of India is supporting this Broadband event initiative.
Among the Telecom Operators & Service Providers – Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Aircel, BSNL, MTNL, Reliance Communications, TATA Teleservices, TATA Communications, Infotel, Sistema Shyam, Virgin Mobile, Etisalat, Uninor, TATA DoCoMo, Videocon, Reliance WIMAX Ltd, Stel, Augere, Tikona, Qualcomm, Sify, Net4India, would be part of the event.
Green Telecom India 2010 Pointing Out The Tower’s radiation & pollution issue
- Category: Telecom Events
- Saturday, 11 September 2010 09:54
- Written by Deeptaman Mukherjee
Green Telecom India 2010 recently took the initiative to discuss about the Telecom Equipments and Tower’s pollution and the radiation. One of the most ongoing elements of the 2nd International Conference Green Telecom India 2010-India, was the controversies over the supposedly high level of radiation as well as pollution from the telecom towers and the equipment, which include mobile handsets.Rajan Mathew, Director-General of Cellular Operators Association of India has recently conducted a joint study of the EMF of various telecom equipments and informed that the total pollution level of the whole ICT industry was merely two per cent of the pollution in India. Since, telecom industry holds less than half a per cent of the entire ICT total, thus pollution only from it could not be alarming. Also, a plethora of telecom executives underlined the requirement for greater availability of the grid power in various rural areas of the country, for obviating the need for setting up the diesel gen-sets.
Rajiv Mehrotra, President of Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association (TEMA) emphasized on the lacking of rules and regulations on the pollutants and radiations from telecom equipments and towers. As per the data mentioned by him, out of the total global pollution of 3.8 million tonnes, almost 2.8 million tonnes was produced from India, although India has comparatively less number of cell phone users. Mobility is one of the major drivers of communication in India and the wire lines connectivity is quite limited. It is observed that because of this, mobile phones were having an uneven impact on pollution.
In his keynote address, Nokia-Siemens Networks global services sales head Samar Mittal estimated the telecom industry’s energy need would is to 60,000 MW by 2050. “Energy costs are rising” he warned. Alternate energy sources like solar panels were expensive and raise operational costs. Networks used 80 per cent of the total energy in the industry. He quoted data to show how energy efficiency in mature markets was almost three times that in emerging markets like India. Nokia-Siemens Networks were experimenting with new renewable energy technologies and that had saved 1.7 GHz of energy in 25 countries.
Talk on such an important topic must create awareness and POAs (Plan of Action) must be implemented, as it is high time now. Since there is a substantial increase in global warming, it further more can great a catastrophic impact on the environment. Let's not forget, Small Steps result in Great Results. Cellular Operators might in verity help in reducing some amount of pollution.
WiMax India 2010 held in New Delhi
- Category: Telecom Events
- Friday, 20 August 2010 23:42
- Written by Puneet Jain
Wimax India 2010 held today at New Delhi. Department of Telecom Secretary and Telecom Commission chairman P. J. Thomas inaugurating the conference referred to the Government programme of connecting all the six hundred thousand villages in a bid to reach out to rural people. Over two and a half lakh panchayats would have broad band connectivity and wireless broadband access would be the most effective and efficient means of achieving this. In his speech Mr. Thomas said, “The mobile revolution is now rolling & WiMax will accelerate it. With prices of both equipment and devices falling day by day the access would become affordable to the rural people. However, he cautioned vendors and operators seeking to set up shop in India to be aware that doing business in India is different from that in any other country. Even the public sector BSNL has learnt it the hard way.”
Public sector BSNL was providing 60 per cent of the 12 million broadband connections that had been achieved in India, according to R. K. Agarwal, director, consumer mobility, of the company. He expected 6000 blocks to be connected with wireless broadband this financial year and 7800 next year. Broadband connections by BSNL would increasingly over 11 million next year.
Dr. Hung Song, vice-president of global electronics major Samsung displayed several tiny modems that could transform laptops, cell phones and other knowledge devices to wireless mode connecting to Internet through WiMax points. The recent WiMax spectrum auction has fetched the Government 8.56 billion USD. Operators are planning a rapid roll out to gain early mover advantage in a market said to be all waiting for this wireless broad band access technology. He explained how the smart phones from the South Korean company were offering a whole range of creative potential to the users doubling up as many devices in one.
Household broadband was now covering 33.2 per cent of the market in Malaysia revealed that country’s leading WiMax operator Packet One International’s managing director Dr. P. S. Tang. Malaysia was having a 100 per cent coverage with GSM. Drawing from his business experience in Malaysia, Dr. Tang said WiMAX would take mobile broadband beyond voice to images and data and be competitive with other mobile technologies.
Malaysia has given 15 MHz of spectrum for each of the four wireless broadband mobile operators which was three times more than what India has offered. From mobile man to man connectivity his company was moving to man to machine and machine to machine connectivity. WiMAX VOIP phone that now cost $50 would be soon costing only $35 however Dr. Tang was looking forward to the price costing down to $20.
Laying down a road map for roll out of the service in India, WiMAX Forum President and Chairman Ron Resnick advised operators to adopt a flexible architecture, reduce time to market and grab the opportunity create millions of jobs. For the Government it was time for decisions having done with the spectrum auctions. Mr. Resnick recalled how he has been advocating the WiMAX opportunity in India since 2002. There were already large number of equipment, devices and manufacturers and the opportunity is vast.
According to Mr. Resnick 149 countries including India were now providing commercial WiMAX services including mobile WiMAX and he sees a big growth potential in India.
New technology developments were offering lower capital costs as one base station now could connect several villages, pointed out Puneet Garg, vice-president-technical, Bharti Airtel. High bandwidth provision would lead to cost reduction and better quality of service. WiMAX was leading to fourth generation mobile wireless access technology.
Describing the low cost high bandwidth technology that WiMAX offered as a social responsibility that we must provide, Motorola country head for home and networks mobility, Subhendu Mohanty hoped that the Government target of 100 million broadband customers would soon be reached. Internet usage was growing but the concern was on how to push the growth to rural areas. With prices of devices and equipment going down, the chances of providing low cost connectivity were growing. The operators would have to focus on content and application development. Operators needed to build up an aggressive plan to create the right eco-system. The company was present in over 40 countries with its WiMAX providing what he called end-to-end solutions.
Rs. One Lakh Crore revenue from Mobile Services by 2020
- Category: Telecom Events
- Tuesday, 13 July 2010 10:57
- Written by Puneet Jain
The prospect of Value Added Services becoming a huge industry with a turnover of Rs 100,000 crores annually by 2020 emerged at a VAS conference held recently. According to OnMobile Chairman and CEO Mr. Arvind Rao VAS would be a “transformational force” and even by 2015 when its turnover would rise from Rs. 15,000 crores now to Rs 50,000 crores it would be a larger industry than advertising or media.
Over 2.5 lakh villages would be connected to wireless broadband and 3G by 2012 enabling them to access the whole range of value added services, said Department of Telecom Secretary Sh. P. J. Thomas inaugurating the conference. The entire lot of panchayats would be connected through optical fibre and computers providing them broadand services, he revealed.
From ringback tone the next big money spinner for the telcos would be Mobile VAS, Mr. Rao said. Though VAS was providing only 10 per cent of the revenues for telcos, within this decade the situation would be reversed with value added services ringing 80 per cent of the revenues and voice revenue shrinking to 20 per cent. The trend abroad was for services like mobile music, moile video, mobile TV, smart phones, converged devices at home enabling users to switch between fixed and mobile phones, use of mobile for social networking and a host of other services on the mobile phone. The OnMobile chairman envisaged a world where the mobile service providers would act as a “bank’ among several other services they would provide covering health, education, entertainment, life style, personal services etc.
Revealing the technology of micro-charging that was emerging, Mr. Rao described how it would enable customers to enjoy short clips, film reviews and entertainment, and interactivity on a scale never imagined earlier. Farmers could raise and find answers to immediate problems. However, the industry would have to resolve problems like revenue sharing between the telcos, content providers and technology vendors. There had to e close co-operation between handset makers and VAS for this scenario to unfold to its full extent.
“India has a real chance to be the world’s largest VAS innovator due to its 1.2 billion population and its diversity but government has to promote this by providing support like tax benefit” Mr. Rao pointed out.
A glimpse of the emerging video world where you could converse and see the person of your choice at the press of a key, where a range of entertainment would open up at will, where education and healthcare as well as information would be connected within seconds and many other services would be within immediate reach was provided in a video presentation by entertainment leader Shemaroo Entertainment Director Mr. Jai Maroo. 3D pictures and videos would be available on the mobile or on the PC at all times. The access to LCD TV would be available to over 400 million mobile subscribers on their phone, heThe prospect of Value Added Services becoming a huge industry with a turnover of Rs 100,000 crores annually by 2020 emerged at a VAS conference here today. According to OnMobile Chairman and CEO Mr. Arvind Rao VAS would be a “transformational force” and even by 2015 when its turnover would rise from Rs. 15,000 crores now to Rs 50,000 crores it would be a larger industry than advertising or media.
Over 2.5 lakh villages would be connected to wireless broadband and 3G by 2012 enabling them to access the whole range of value added services, said Department of Telecom Secretary Sh. P. J. Thomas inaugurating the conference. The entire lot of panchayats would be connected through optical fibre and computers providing them broadand services, he revealed.
From ringback tone the next big money spinner for the telcos would be Mobile VAS, Mr. Rao said. Though VAS was providing only 10 per cent of the revenues for telcos, within this decade the situation would be reversed with value added services ringing 80 per cent of the revenues and voice revenue shrinking to 20 per cent. The trend abroad was for services like mobile music, moile video, mobile TV, smart phones, converged devices at home enabling users to switch between fixed and mobile phones, use of mobile for social networking and a host of other services on the mobile phone. The OnMobile chairman envisaged a world where the mobile service providers would act as a “bank’ among several other services they would provide covering health, education, entertainment, life style, personal services etc.
Revealing the technology of micro-charging that was emerging, Mr. Rao described how it would enable customers to enjoy short clips, film reviews and entertainment, and interactivity on a scale never imagined earlier. Farmers could raise and find answers to immediate problems. However, the industry would have to resolve problems like revenue sharing between the telcos, content providers and technology vendors. There had to e close co-operation between handset makers and VAS for this scenario to unfold to its full extent.
“India has a real chance to be the world’s largest VAS innovator due to its 1.2 billion population and its diversity but government has to promote this by providing support like tax benefit” Mr. Rao pointed out.
A glimpse of the emerging video world where you could converse and see the person of your choice at the press of a key, where a range of entertainment would open up at will, where education and healthcare as well as information would be connected within seconds and many other services would be within immediate reach was provided in a video presentation by entertainment leader Shemaroo Entertainment Director Mr. Jai Maroo. 3D pictures and videos would be available on the mobile or on the PC at all times. The access to LCD TV would be available to over 400 million mobile subscribers on their phone, hepredicted. The providing of multiple vision facility would transform every one’s lives as the experience in three dimensions becomes ubiquitous, Mr. Maroo said. “Video calling will be a reality with 3G as soon as it gets rolled out” he predicted. “It would be video on the go” in the coming years.
“We have an opportunity to transform the world” said Airtel vice-president for marketing and business head Rakesh Mahajan detailing how his company was going to use its recently acquired 3G airwaves to enrich customer experience. However he suggested that telecom operators should aim at providing sustainable value in VAS and not just rich customer experience. He projected cross industry, cross community services to arrive on the back of 3G airwaves.
These and other projections of the vast range of innovations on mobile phones on the move were the subject of presentations by Aircel CMO Rahul Saigal and Idea Cellular Chief corporate affairs officer Rajat Mukarji. Public sector telco BSNL was even now providing 3G experience to its subscribers in 450 cities and towns, said R. K. Aggarwal, director of consumer mobility in the countrywide company. He also revealed that another 250 towns would get the benefit within the next five months.
New Network Drivers Have Arrived – The Road Ahead For Managed Services in India
- Category: Telecom Events
- Wednesday, 21 April 2010 11:39
- Written by Priya
In recent years awareness of Managed Services has increased significantly; Managed Services is a fast growing USD 16 billion industry which is attracting Telecom Operators in a big way, by providing them services such as network build, including planning and design, field operations, Network Operation Center (NOC) operations, application & service development, and billing.All the major Telecom Operators along with the Leading Companies engaged in Managed Services in India will be congregating at India’s Exclusive & Only event on Managed Services, “2nd Managed Services India 2010” – 1 day International Conference, which will be held on April 23 2010 at Le Meridien, New Delhi.
Organized by Bharat Exhibitions, ‘Managed Services India 2010’, will offer the business platform in the country for Indian Telecom Industry to conduct business & share their strategic Managed Services insights for
According to Mr. Manoranjan ‘Mao’ Mohapatra, CEO, Comviva - We are proud to be the Presenting Sponsor of Managed Services India 2010, as
Mr. Shashi Dharan, Managing Director, Bharat Exhibitions the brain behind, 2nd Managed Services India 2010 commented, The event is established as a key meeting point and discussion forum for senior representatives from telecom operators & leading companies engaged in Managed services. And it will examine the current potential & development of Managed Services in
Making it truly global platform to conduct business, Global majors engaged in Managed Services in Telecom sector - Comviva, Nokia Siemens Networks, Amdocs, Avocent, ZTE, Alcatel-Lucent, Shaildhar Telecom, UBIqube & Zoho are participating in the event & will share their plans for India.
Among the Telecom Operators – Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Aircel, BSNL, MTNL, Reliance Communications, TATA Teleservices, Sistema Shyam, Virgin, Etisalat, Videocon Telecommunications and Telenor are participating in the Show.
