The most awaited telecom event ( for me at least ) has finally happened in capital city. The 16th Convergence India 2008 was hosted on 19-21 march 2008 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
I am personally following this event from last 4 years ( that's how long I am into the telecom world) and I do every possible attempt to not to miss this grand event.
To me, the biggest attraction were Nokia-Seimens, Erricsson and Tejas Networks as they represent the key market dynamics. Overall market focus was on NGN (next-gen networks), 3G wireless and packet-based services.
It was a platform for hardware vendors ( networking & communication gears, OEMs, unified communications, optic-switches etc.), service providers (broadband, ethernet, VOIP etc. ) as well as for software vendors (network management).
The following market opportunities were identified:
India is the fastest growing telecom network in the world today and second largest in Asia. Year 2006-07 witnessed 66 % growth in networks. Mobile handset sales were nearly 100 million a year and PCs six million plus. In the next three years, the plans are:
* 500 million telephone connections.
* Of these at least 150 million will be in rural areas where farmer-entrepreneurs are changing the countryside.
* 40 million high speed Internet subscribers.
* 20 million broadband subscribers with 2MBPS bandwidth.
* 100,000 common service centers in villages.
* Wide Area data networks in 23 states.
* US $ 5.8 billion e-Governance programme.
* Millions of citizenship cards to be issued with biometric identification.
* Several networks in healthcare, education, research, videoconferencing facilities across the country,VoIP, VPN and IN (Intelligent Networking).
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