This Project was taken under Professor. AKN Prasad, Dean Operations at Welingkar

2. Telecom growth in India has been divided into phases on the basis of policies that are being adopted by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) of the Government of India (GOI). The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) reports show that the growth rate has exponentially increased during the phases from a negligible quantity to a significant number.

6. TELEDENSITY AND OWNERSHIP STATISTICS

7. TARIFF STATISTICS

8. CURRENT STATISTICS The position of the number of phones and the growth therein Additions in lakh The performance of various parameters during April 2007 and 2008 APRIL ‘07 APRIL ’08 GROWTH (%) 51.52 80.18 55.63% DESCRIPTION APRIL ’07 APRIL ‘08 WIRELINE PHONES (lakhs) -2.49 -2.03 WIRELESS PHONES (lakhs) 54.01 82.21 TELE DENSITY (%) 26.89%

14. SATELLITE COMMUNICATION

15. ANTRIX SERVICES OFFERED

16. REVENUE SPLIT OF ANTRIX

21. Socio-Economic Benefits of Telecom / ICT Access – An Overview • Economic Benefits – FDI, GDP, Government Revenues, Productivity gains, Employment generation, Consumer surplus • Social Benefits – Income generation • Employment • Increase in indirect income generation capacity • Saving on expenditure or transaction costs – Impact on poverty reduction

22. Ownership patterns at the bottom of the pyramid

23. Consumers have benefited through reduction in prices for both fixed and mobile services • current prices have come down to 20-30% of prices in 2003 • Mobile ownership at the “Bottom of the Pyramid” in India is as high as 9%,

24. The impact of direct access to telecom on the efficiency of daily activities (mean response)

25. The impact of direct access to telecom on the ability to earn more using the phone or save a certain expense that would have been incurred without the phone (mean response)

26. The impact of direct access to telecom on family and social relations (mean response)

27. The impact of direct access to telecom on the ability to communicate in an emergency (mean response)

29. CAREER PROSPECT IN TELECOM SECTOR

31. From- Abhinav Goyal Devang Bhuta Dhananjay Patil Khyati Shah Ramya Lakshmi Vishal Jain