VSAT Growth in India ''Regulatory and Policy barrier

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VSAT Growth in India ..Regulatory and Policy
barrier

• Anil Prakash
• Secretary General, Telecom Users Group of India

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De-Regulation of Telecom Sector

• Liberalisation and Privatisation process
• Functional Separation of dual Role of Govt.
• Independent Regulatory Authority
• Minimum Regulatory Intervention after Competition
  is established
• Fulfillment of Universal Service Obligation

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De-Regulation of Telecom Sector

• Constructing a fair and non-discriminatory
  Interconnect regime
• Establishing a Competition Framework
• Accounting Separation for the Incumbents
• Implementation of QoS
• Infrastructure Sharing and Co-location with
  incumbent

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Policy Changes Revive Market

• National Telecom Policy 99 allows License fee
  migrate to Revenue Sharing Regime
• Allow use of KU Band
• Lifting 64 kbps barrier to 512kbps
• Lifting ban on using foreign satellites
• 2001-02 17.5 Rs. 252.4 Cr in equipment
• 1639 VSAT add to 8062 overall tally 25.51 growth

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Top VSAT Service Providers
VSAT Base March 2001
VSAT Base March 2002
Service Providers
Rank
VSAT Installed In 2001-02
Mkt Share
VD Estimates
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VSAT Vendors
DAMA
TDMA
TDMA
Venders
Mkt Share
Mkt Share
Rank
Rank
Venders
DAMA
VD Estimates
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Todays Situation

• Indian Oil deploying 100 DAMA by Viasat and 100
  TDMA by Gilat
• ITC 100 terminals will grow to 500 terminals by
  Comsat
• Playwin Lottery 15000 terminals by HNS by 2003 ,
  1000 terminals deployes
• Sahara India 1420 two way SkyBlaster terminals
  by Bharti Broadband
• Dept. of Treasury Govt. of Karnataka, Distance
  Learning Project , Govt. of Andhra Pradesh,
  Teleconferencing project by Govt. of Utra Pradesh

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Todays Situation

• Large number of deployment by Banking Sector for
  100,000 ATMs
• Dept. of Post linking all major Post Office for
  Money Order Transfer
• ERNET

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Village Public Telephone

• VPT application 1000 terminals Dial_at_wayIP VSAT by
  Gilat to Tata Teleservices in Andhra Pradesh
• BSNL tender in process for 17,000 terminals
• Basic Service Providers like Shyam Telelink,
  Hughes Tele.com, HFCL Infotel and Bharti Telenet
  and Reliance

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Universal Service Fund- Blessing in Disguise

• Rural and Remote areas connectivity
• Provision of Public Telecom and Information
  Services
• Installation of VPTs in remaining 6,07,491
  villages by 31/3/2002
• Provision of additional rural community phones in
  areas after achieving target of one VPT in each
  village
• Replacement of VPT installed before 1/4/2002
• Up gradation of VPTs to Public Telecom and Info
  Centers PTICs, 35000 by end of 2004
• Installation of High Speed PTICs, HPTICs, 128
  kbps

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VPT Status by P-Telcos
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New Frontier-HRDVSAT an effective knowledge
disseminator-V Rajesh HCL Comnet

• Cost Effective
• No Geographical Barriers
• Quality Education
• Unlimited Audience

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BSNL plans13,00,000 rural phones this year

• Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has fixed a target of
  providing 13.3 lach rural telephone connection
  in the country during this financial yearThis
  was informed by minister of state for
  communications Sumitra Mahajan in the Lok Sabha.
  Out of this, eight lach connections have been
  planned on wire and 5.34 lach on WLL systems.
  This would include 47,439 village public
  telephones in the villages which do not have any
  telecom facility so far. While around 8,000 VPT,s
  have been planned on satellite media . BSNL has
  sought funds from government for provision of
  satellite VPTs
• 29 November, The Economics Times, New Delhi
  

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Conclusion

• Reduction of size of Antenna
• CUG be allowed to interconnect with PSTN
• VPN be allowed for seamless interconnection
• Custom Duty and local levies be abolish for use
  of VPT under USO
• 512 kbps cap be removed, 2 mbps be allowed

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conclusions foreignEwan Southerland, ED INTUG

• colonies of connectivity
• Indian telecommunications appears
• overly bureaucratic
• unpredictable
• expensive
• need to inject new
• ideas
• capital
• technology

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Thank You

• anilprakash_at_yahoo.com
• ircentre_at_vsnl.com