TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY Presented by: Saja.K.A

MOBILE COMMUNICATION

INDUSTRY PROFILE For four years, the telecom industry in India has shown tremendous growth with an average growth rate of 64.51%. Initially mobile phones where used by high income users. By the end of 2007, mobile phones have become accessible even to the low income users. The Indian mobile market continues to expand with new entrants like Virgin Mobile in 2008, Loop Telecom in 2009, and the incumbent CDMA operators like Reliance and Tata moving into GSM in 2009. An average of between 8 and 10 million mobile subscribers were added every month in India in the recent past shows the market provides opportunities for telecom players.

India embraces both GSM and CDMA technologies India embraces both GSM and CDMA technologies. The government recently opened its doors for deploying 3G technology as well. To ensure fair play and benefit to the consumer, the government appointed an independent regulator called Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in 1997. With over 300 million mobile subscribers, India has the necessary maturity of business landscape and infrastructure in place to support further growth.

GROWTH RATE The market is expected to show remarkable growth in the coming years. In 2004 the subscribers numbered 47.38 million. The number has increased to 341.31 million by the end of 2008. It is forecast that the number of subscribers could reach as high as 868.47 million reaching at 69.35% penetration by 2013. The estimated compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of mobile subscribers from 2008 to 2013 is 20.54%.

RELEVENCE IN INDIAN ECONOMY The service sector has been the forerunner contributing approximately 54% of the GDP in 2008. Telecommunication fall under the booming service sector. Revenues of the telecom industry continued to show robust growth with wireless market growing at 9.91%. The revenue stood at USD 7.36 billion for the second quarter ending in September 2008. overtook US as 2nd largest wll mkt. The next few years are likely to witness a rapid expansion of the Indian mobile market not only in terms of subscribers but also in technology and services.

MAJOR PLAYERS

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Bharti Airtel India’s leading business group in telecom More than 110million customers growth compared to previous year was 6.38% New launches in 25 global cities across 4 continents On NSE AIRTEL ended down at 6.19% i.e 29250 crores

Bharti Airtel - a fact sheet Founded - 1995 Founder(s) - Sunil Bharti Mittal Head quarters - New Delhi, India Key People - Sunil Mittal (chairman ) Manoj Kohli (CEO) Products - Wireless, Telephone,Internet Revenue - US$ 6.73billion(2008) Net Income - US$ 1.59billion(2008) Total Assets - US$ 12.28billion(2008)

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IDEA CELLULAR IDEA CELLULAR is part of the ADITHYA BIRLA GROUP, India’s first truly multinational corporation It is a publicly listed company, having listed on BSE and NSE in March 2007 Leading GSM mobile service operator with pan India liscenses With a customer base of over 47million in 17 service areas Won The GSM- Association Award for “ Best Billing and Customer Care solution” for 2 consecutive years It was awarded “Mobile Operator of the year award- India” for 2007 and 2008 at the Annual Asian Mobile News Awards.

IDEA CELLULAR - a fact sheet Founded - 1995 Owner(s) - Adithya Birla Group Head quarters - Santacruz East,Mumbai Key People - Kumar Mangalam Birla (chairman) Sangeev Aga(MD) Products - Wireless, Telephone,Internet Net Profit - 52% Growth - 29%

Simply reliance!

RELIANCE COMMUNICATIONS RIM is a part of RELIANCE- ANIL DHIRUBHAI One of indias largest providers of communication with more than 48million customers VISION- “We will leverage our strength to execute complex global-scale projects to facilitate leading edge information and comminication services affordable to all individual consumers and business in India” It has established a pan-India,high capacity intergrated(wireless and wireline) convergent(voice, data and vedio) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire infocom value chain.

Reliance communications - a fact sheet Founded - 2004 Head quarters - NaviMumbai, Maharashtra Key People - Anil Ambani (chairman) Products - Wireless, Telephone,Internet Revenue - US$ 47727million(2008) Net Income - US$ 1.35billion(2008) Total Assets - US$ 19.31billion(2008)

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VODAFONE ESSAR LIMITED Vodafone Essar is the Indian subsidiary of Vodafone Group and commenced operations in 1994 when its predecessor Hutchison Telecom acquired the cellular license for Mumbai The company now has operations across the country with over 82.84 million customers Vodafone is the world's leading international mobile communications group with approximately 315 million proportionate customers as on 30 June 2009. OBJECTIVE- The company plans to spend more than Rs 250crore in launching low price cell phones in India-to bring millions of cheap mobile handsets from around the world to max. sales

VODAFONE - a fact sheet Founded - 1994 Founded as - Hutchison Essar Head quarters - Mumbai,Maharashtra Key People - Martin Pieters (CEO) Products - Mobile Networks,Telecom Ownership - Vodafone Group(67%) Essar Group(33%)

MARKET SHARE ON THE BASIS OF SUBSCRIBER BASE

CONCLUSION Tight competition Largest customers High contribution- Indian economy Stabilizes the economy

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