Frost & Sullivan has conferred three awards upon Tata Communications in the Enterprise Telecom Services category at the 2012 Frost & Sullivan, India, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Awards. Tata Communications bagged the Enterprise Data Service Provider, Hosted Contact Centre Service Provider and Third-Party Managed Services Provider Awards for the year 2011.

The Indian enterprise data market has been extremely dynamic in the last couple of years and has been witnessing tremendous growth in the small and medium enterprises (SME) sector. Tata Communications has always been a pioneer and has introduced several firsts in the market such as Ethernet services, IPv6, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), International Private Leased Circuit (IPLC), Domestic Leased Circuits (DLC) and Public Cloud services.

The Third-Party Managed Services market in India also continues to witness innovations in technology, business models and operational practices. Tata Communications offers a rich suite of managed services, which provide customers with a competitive edge. Managed IT and communications services provide them with enhanced business capabilities at very affordable costs. These services operate on their high performance network backbone, providing reliable access and excellent performance across India.

Tata Communications has led from the front in the hosted contact centre business. Innovation has been at the core of this business model. It continues to be the leader in this space, with its strong product offerings for International as well as Domestic Contact Centers, screen recording, chat channel, real-time, on-site reporting, and most importantly bringing innovation by creating a portfolio of CC applications surrounded with true cloud- based virtualization benefits for the customer. Tata Communications had the highest growth in revenues and market share amongst all service providers in 2011.

Commenting on the awards, Laurie Bowen, President, Global Enterprise Business, Tata Communications, said, “We are extremely pleased to receive these three prestigious awards. Our end-to-end solutions in the Managed Services, Enterprise Data Service and Hosted Contact Centre Service space have always been innovative and customer-focused. They are driving substantial business value for our enterprise customers and have in turn strengthened their trust in our services. Our significant investment in infrastructure and sales support has contributed to our tremendous growth and we are delighted to have an esteemed organisation such as Frost & Sullivan acknowledge and reinforce this.”

While presenting the Awards, Benoy C S, Director, Information & Communication Technologies Practice, Frost & Sullivan, South Asia and Middle East, stated, “Tata Communications has reinforced its leadership in delivering innovative products and technology solutions through its complete enterprise focus, strong global network, vertical and horizontal diversity, and long-term partnership approach.”

The recipients of the Awards were judged based on a variety of parameters like Revenues, Growth, Market Share, Product Diversity, and Vertical and Horizontal Diversity, which involved in-depth primary interviews of various industry participants and secondary research conducted by Frost & Sullivan analysts. An elite panel of jury members comprising some of the most prominent CIOs/CTOs from the industry evaluated the compiled data and incorporated the end-user perspective. Frost & Sullivan then presented the Awards to the companies that received the number one industry rank in each category.

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The rapid expansion of the Indian IT and Telecom sector has emerged as a key driver for the Indian economy and placed India on a globally competitive platform in the last one and a half decades. In the last financial year, Indian IT Software and Services export has grown at a rate of 16.5 percent and has reached USD 68 billion. The Indian telecom sector is now the fastest-growing and second-largest market in the world, with over 900 million subscribers.

Frost & Sullivan hosted the 10th Annual 2012 India ICT Awards at the ITC Grand Central, Mumbai to honor companies that have been extremely resilient in making it to the top in their business category in spite of the current challenging market conditions. The awards covered four main categories: Enterprise Infrastructure, Enterprise IT Services, Enterprise Telecom Services, and Mobile Wireless. These were further divided into 24 sub-categories.

On the occasion, Anand Rangachary, Partner and Managing Director, Frost & Sullivan, South Asia, Middle East, & North Africa, said, “Despite a difficult economic climate, certain players have clearly demonstrated an outstanding performance in the ICT market. Relentless focus on customer satisfaction and product and service innovation with unflinching execution has been the hallmark of their performance. The award recipients are industry leaders in their respective segments and are effectively shaping the ICT landscape of the region.”

Commenting on the outlook of Indian Telecom industry, he said, “The industry would soon come out of the current turbulence born out of a lack of clarity in certain regulatory guidelines. In the next one year, we will have a stabler, maturer telecom market, and I expect to see convergence gaining momentum, wireless broadband growing significantly, and new innovative business models evolve in the ICT space.”

The recipients of the Awards were judged based on a variety of parameters like Revenues, Growth, Market Share, Product Diversity, and Vertical and Horizontal Diversity, which involved in-depth primary interviews of various industry participants and secondary research conducted by Frost & Sullivan analysts. An elite panel of jury members comprising some of the most prominent CIOs/CTOs from the industry evaluated the compiled data and incorporated the end-user perspective. Frost & Sullivan then presented the Awards to the companies that received the number one industry rank in each category.

The Esteemed Jury for the Awards this year included the following eminent personalities:

– Mr. Ajay Kumar Dhir, Executive Director and Group CIO, Lanco Infratech Limited
– Mr. Anshul Dureja, President - Corporate Operations and Chief Green Officer, Greenply Industries Limited
– Mr. Ashok K Aggarwal, Honorary Director General, Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association of India
– Dr. Neena Pahuja, CIO, Max Healthcare Group
– Mr. J.S. Puri, Advisor - Advisor Corporate Affairs and CEO – Strategic Management Solutions FZE, Dubai UAE
Fortis Healthcare Limited
– Mr. Manish Choksi, Chief - Corporate Strategy and CIO, Asian Paints
– Mr. N Jayantha Prabhu, CTO, Essar Group
– Mr. S. Ramasamy, Executive Director (IS), Indian Oil Corporation
– Mr. Sebastian Joseph, President - Technology and FM, DDB Mudra Group
– Mr. Tarun Pandey, Vice President - IT, Aditya Birla Financial Services Group
– Mr. Vijay Sethi, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Hero MotoCorp Limited
– Mr. Vikram Idnani, CIO, Trent Limited

The Media Partners supporting the 2012 Frost & Sullivan India ICT Awards were Biztech2.com, Infotechlead.com, Lightreadingindia.com, Telecom Era, Telecomlead.com and Telecomwatch.

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Rediff.com India Limited (Nasdaq: REDF), one of the premier worldwide online providers of news, information, communication, entertainment, mobile and shopping services, will release its results for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2012 at 8:30 am ET ( 5:30 am Pacific Time / 6:00 pm India Time) on Tuesday, May 29, 2012.

In conjunction with this release, Rediff.com will host a conference call. Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Swasti Bhowmick, Chief Financial Officer will host the call at 9:00 am ET ( 6:00 am Pacific Time / 6:30 pm India Time) , on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, soon after declaring the results for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2012.

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Ittiam Systems today announced that Dr. Sriram Sethuraman has been elected as the company’s first Chief Technology Officer. He joined Ittiam Systems in 2002 when he returned to India from the United States of America.

Dr. Sethuraman received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA in 1996. His areas of research included video compression, multi-resolution estimation, 3D-video and visual communications. His doctoral thesis was in the area of “Stereoscopic image sequence compression using multi-resolution and quad-tree decomposition based disparity-and-motion-adaptive segmentation”. Prior to joining Ittiam, he served as the Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Interactive Media Group of Sarnoff Corporation.

During his 10-year career at Ittiam, Dr. Sethuraman has been the architect of the company’s technologies and products in the fields of video compression, video communication, media broadcast and digital imaging. He led several programs that made a significant impact on the company’s growth and standing in the industry. He has been the face of Ittiam’s technical capability and standard with the global customers of the company. He has served as the Video Technologist of Ittiam and has been elected as an Ittiam Fellow in 2011.

Dr.Sethuraman has authored / co-authored 23 issued patents (and several pending patents) and more than 30 international publications. He has been a member of the standards committee for MPEG-/7, a Senior Member of IEEE, Chaired several international conference sessions, and served on other industry forums.

“Since the company’s founding in 2001, Ittiam has made great strides as a world class media processing and communications IP company. Dr. Sethuraman has played a pivotal role in every major technical milestone we have reached in our journey. Our board is pleased to appoint him as our first Chief Technology Officer. He now has the charter to grow our long-term differentiation, incubate new technical ventures and be the technology advisor to all our businesses”, commented Srini Rajam, Chairman and CEO of Ittiam Systems.

Ittiam is making strong investments for growth in its established business segments of Mobile Multimedia, Media Broadcast, Video Communication, Video Networking and Wi-Fi Communications. It is also making significant new investments in areas such as Automotive Infotainment.

“This recognition is an honor and I am delighted to be taking up the role as the Chief Technology Officer at a time when Ittiam is poised for excellent growth leveraging the cutting edge technology synergies across our business units. Ittiam products and offerings are widely accepted in the market today and it has been a pleasure collaborating with a world class team of fellow Ittians who have collectively achieved this. I look forward to the exciting times ahead that propel Ittiam to greater heights“, remarked Dr. Sriram Sethuraman on the occasion of his new appointment.

About Ittiam Systems Private Limited
Ittiam Systems Private Limited, headquartered in Bangalore, India, is a technology company singularly focused on embedded media centric systems. It operates through its network of offices and representatives around the world. Ittiam’s customers include world’s leading electronics companies for its software-and-system IP and semiconductor companies for its system-on-chip IP. Since 2004 the company has been consistently rated as the “World’s Most Preferred DSP IP Supplier” in the annual surveys conducted by Forward Concepts Incorporated. In 2005 Ittiam had been selected by Red Herring into the top 100 private companies in Asia. In February 2007, Ittiam received the NASSCOM India IT Innovation Award, a prestigious recognition. In July 2011 Ittiam’s VC won the Product of the Year 2010 from Communications Solutions. In January 2012 Ittiam’s VCS-FHD and VNS-CPlus were awarded Internet Telephony 2011 Product of the year. Embedding Ittiam IP inside, the annual volume of customers’ products shipped such as Smartphones, Tablets, Video Communication Devices and Wi-Fi Chipsets is in several tens of million units. In March’12, the company’s royalty revenue reached a global benchmark of becoming more than 35% of its total revenues.

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HCL blu Enterprise Cloud Platform hosts first of its kind implementation for a hospital Information System in the country
– First time in India that the entire HIS Application for large Hospitals is deployed on the cloud Platform

HCL Infosystems Ltd., India’s Premier hardware, services and ICT Systems Integration and Distribution Company has been chosen as a strategic technology partner by Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) Hospitals. The tie up is the result of a rigorous evaluation and a painstaking proof of concept exercise which took almost a year to come to fruition. HCL blu Enterprise Cloud’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution is being deployed across 22 NH hospitals and has been already rolled out in Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Jamshedpur and Jaipur. The other centres are in the process of being hooked up to the central system. The partnership has been signed for a period of 5 years.

This unique implementation by HCL Infosystems is also the first of its kind in India where the Hospital Information Systems (HIS) application for a hospital is completely deployed on the cloud. The solution would reduce capital and operational expenditures for Narayana Hrudayalaya and will enable the hospital to provide faster access to healthcare for its patients such as facilitating faster patient registrations. The implementation will also enable hospital staff to quickly complete their administrative tasks thereby freeing their time to provide healthcare. The high performance cloud computing services are backed by a strong infrastructure backbone and HCL’s national support network to ensure business continuity. The HCL IaaS includes components from Cisco, EMC, Net App and VMware.

Elaborating on the deployment, Harsh Chitale, CEO, HCL Infosystems said, “We would like to thank Narayana Hrudayalaya for deciding to partner with us in their transformational journey. Cloud computing has come to define the way businesses function today and keeping in line with the present times we are committed to providing the best in class Enterprise Cloud Services. Our cloud solutions are highly customized as per the needs of organizations and focuses on addressing business needs of clients. We bring the best available technologies from different partners to achieve an optimal solution for our clients.”

On the occasion Dr. Devi Shetty, Founder, Narayana Hrudayalaya said, “We are delighted to partner with HCL Infosystems who is not only a long standing ICT company in India but also amongst leading cloud enterprise solution providers today. With this deployment we look to maximize our efficiency and scale up our services. We are sure that our HIS on cloud will be a path breaking initiative in the Indian Healthcare Industry”

HCL Infosystem’s IaaS solution would allow NH to provide and manage the infrastructure required to support its systems in the most flexible manner. It would cater to needs like virtual servers, cloud storage network infrastructure components, Cloud security stack and configuration services and also provide 24X7 support and system monitoring. The Cloud Solution for NH will be scalable and will ensure business continuity.

HCL blu Enterprise Cloud delivers high performance cloud computing services backed by a strong infrastructure backbone and HCL’s national support network to ensure business continuity for organizations. HCL Infosystems is taking a focused approach on providing the best in class Enterprise Cloud Services which are customized as per the needs of organizations. As a Cloud System Integrator, HCL Infosystems brings to clients the best available technologies from different partners so as to achieve an optimal solution and hence are vendor and technology neutral. Some of the successful cloud deployments by blu Enterprise Cloud includes for organizations like IIM Bangalore, Continental Engines, Healthsprint, Piaggio, Family Welfare Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, Thiess India, Shell Lubricants etc among others.

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According to a new Microsoft study in five geographies, including India, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are gaining significant IT security benefits from using the cloud.

The study shows that 64 percent of Indian companies have experienced noticeably higher levels of security since moving to the cloud. In addition, 52 percent say they spend less time worrying about the threat of cyber attacks. Indian SMBs using the cloud also spend 72 percent less time each week managing security than companies not using the cloud. They are also 22 times more likely to have reduced what they spend on managing security as a percentage of overall IT budget.

“There’s a perception that security is a barrier to cloud adoption,” said Adrienne Hall, general manager, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, “Yet when companies embrace and invest in cloud services, they find the benefits far outweigh previous concerns.”

Time and money spent managing security prior to using cloud services is being re-invested by SMBs to grow their business and be more competitive. The survey shows that, in India:

– 61 percent of SMBs that use the cloud said they were able to employ more staff in roles that directly benefit sales or business growth; 63 percent invest in more product development or innovation; and 62 percent experienced improved agility in being to increase and decrease IT capacity when needed.
– Over half of those surveyed (64 percent) said that using the cloud enabled them to add new products and services that benefit their business more quickly and securely.
– 52 percent said the cloud made it easier for them to scale their business to explore new markets.

“Any solution that helps SMBs’ bottom line has to be good for them and the economy,” said Ryan Brock, vice president of Worldwide SMB Cloud & Channels at Access Markets International Partners. “When it comes to security, the cloud offers SMBs a level of expertise, specialist resources and investment that they cannot hope to match. This translates into cost and time savings and better protection against cyber threats, which gives them the freedom to innovate and grow their business.”

The study, commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by research company comScore, polled companies with between 100 and 250 computers PCs in the U.S., India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. For the purpose of this research, cloud users were defined as companies that used a cloud service via a subscription model.

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Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced the third edition of its venture investment competition in India to identify the industry’s most promising early-stage technology companies. The Qualcomm Ventures QPrize™ competition was first launched in 2009 to promote innovation in the technology industry and is managed by Qualcomm’s venture investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures.

Announcing the launch of the QPrize initiative in India, Dr. Avneesh Agrawal, Qualcomm’s senior vice president and president of Qualcomm India and South Asia, said, “The QPrize competition reflects Qualcomm’s deep-rooted philosophy to foster innovation and advance the use of mobile and other technologies for the benefit of people and businesses in India and around the world. Through QPrize, we are looking to identify breakthrough ideas at early stages and help them grow by providing entrepreneurs with mentorship, investment support and exposure to the global technology ecosystem. We look forward to another round of enthusiastic participation from Indian entrepreneurs in QPrize this year, and to helping transform their innovative ideas into robust and commercially successful technology offerings.”

“QPrize was launched with the aim of supporting local entrepreneurs and helping bring their bold new ideas into the global market,” said Nagraj Kashyap, vice president, Qualcomm Ventures. “We have been impressed by the diversity and uniqueness of past QPrize participants and look forward to this year’s competition.”

Also speaking on the occasion, Karthee Madasamy, director of investments for India and Israel, Qualcomm Ventures, said, “Over the last few years, we have witnessed a proliferation of promising young entrepreneurs in India and consequently, the need for investment support and mentorship to help them realize their dreams. The QPrize competition, which attracts and highlights the brightest business ideas from India’s pool of talented entrepreneurs, is an initiative to nurture local start-ups with the promise to be future industry leaders with early-stage financing and support in their journey to global success.”

Last year’s winner of Qualcomm Ventures India QPrize competition, Bengaluru-based company Reverie Language Technologies, provides technology and solutions for local language (Indian, Perso-arabic and other South Asian complex scripts) processing of digital media in mobile and other devices.

Arvind Pani, co-founder and CEO of Reverie Language Technologies, said “Winning Qualcomm’s QPrize 2011 India edition has not only been a huge learning experience for us, but has also resulted in transforming our business. The rigour involved in QPrize’s application, qualification and judging process is an enriching experience that we would highly recommend to any young start-up. This recognition from Qualcomm has helped us to hone our potential, quickly scale up, and leverage the many opportunities that were enabled for us. Moreover, it allowed us to access substantial support and visibility within industry circles, which has not only enabled us to attract top notch talent, but also opened more doors for our enterprise.”

The Qualcomm Ventures QPrize competition is open to start-ups whose business plans accelerate technology development in the following business sectors:

– Consumer/enterprise applications and services

– Communication devices

– Semiconductor and component technologies

– Mobile platforms

– Digital media and content

– Healthcare technologies and services

– CleanTech

The deadline for business plan submissions is August 17, 2012. From the pool of competing entries, Qualcomm Ventures will select one winner of the QPrize India competition who will receive US$100,000 of convertible note funding from Qualcomm Incorporated. The QPrize India winner will then be eligible compete against other regional finalists in the QPrize Grand Finals competition for an additional US$150,000 in convertible note funding. Sponsors and partners for the QPrize India competition include Mumbai Angels and YourStory.in.

Additional details on the Qualcomm Ventures’ QPrize competition, candidate eligibility and submission guidelines are available at www.qprize.com.

Qualcomm Ventures, the venture investment group of Qualcomm Incorporated, was launched in the United States in November 2000 with an initial US$500 million allocation. Qualcomm Ventures’ aim is to support Qualcomm’s mission of enabling and fostering 3G and wireless Internet markets through investments in privately owned startup ventures. These investments include companies focusing on wireless communication technologies and products serving consumer, enterprise and vertical markets worldwide. After successfully expanding its activities in Korea, Japan, China and Europe, Qualcomm Ventures set up its India presence in 2008 with a direct equity investment in Tessolve. It has also invested in Kirusa and MapMyIndia.
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Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is the world leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other. For more information, visit Qualcomm’s website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.

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Corpus Media Labs launches range of products targeted to meet the digitization rollout set to be completed by the end of 2014. The Government is mulling over the deadline set by the Supreme Court for covering the existing Analog mode of cable network into digital mode.

Corpus Media Labs ( www.corpus.com), a Systems Integrator offering Digital TV and IPTV solutions around its software branded as ‘Tornado’, delivers media solutions creating value & sustainable revenues to their customers and clients.

“With experience gained in the west, we are now poised to cater to the emerging market needs with a large contingent of engineers and R & D team working on solutions & products for the Digitization mandate given by the governments across the developing world’s especially, India. The DTV solutions include standard based low cost set-top-box (STB) solutions in addition to premium High Definition & Hybrid over-the-top (OTT) solutions”, says Sachin Tummala, Chief Executive Officer of Corpus Group.

The conversion of Analog to Digital creates multiple business areas in this field, provoking several companies plunging into exploring business opportunities of late. Industry analysts forecast the process of conversion from analog to digital in India has a business potential of Rs. 40,000 crore.

The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2011 passed by the Parliament mandates that all cable TV operators will have to transmit TV signals in an encrypted format through a digital addressable system. This will be done through the installation of a set-top-box in every household for their cable TV. “Corpus, leveraging its strategic partnerships with the STB manufacturers is also exploring funding options to the MSO’s”, mentions Sachin Tummala.

With this complete digitization of the TV industry, consumers will now be able to enjoy better picture and sound quality, enhanced services such as high definition and video on demand content.

“Viewers will be able to choose and pay for only those channels that they want rather than having to pick from packages with fixed prices” Sachin says adding that the Bill will prevent Local Cable Operators (LCOs) from bypassing the digital set-top box, and deciding the mix and price of channels according to locality and customer base. The bill will also shift the balance of power between last mile providers like LCOs, MSO’s/DTH and TV broadcasters.

On the IPTV solutions provided by Corpus, Sachin Tummala elaborated, “We innovate on building end-to-end IP solutions packaging with the content and delivering as a managed service for both operators & retail segments”. The end-to-end IP based and hybrid DTV solutions help their clients and partners serve targeted content and compelling applications and services to either individual clients (operator or retail) or to targeted communities, he clarified. Manthan Broadband Services Pvt Ltd., Multichoice South Africa, Bell Canada are a few of the esteemed clientele of Corpus Media Labs.

Leading the Digitization opportunity in a big way in India, with “DTV in a box” solution which is interoperable, affordable, scalable and supported locally, Corpus aims to capture 20 % of the market share in the next 3 years, says a confident Sachin Tummala.

About Corpus

Corpus ( www.corpus.com) was founded in 1999 as a Technology Company with its headquarters in Bangalore and offices in Hyderabad & Noida in India, Singapore, London, South Africa and Dallas, Texas. Corpus Media Labs (a brand of Corpus Software Pvt Ltd) suite of products & services are globally targeted for Cable, DTH, Terrestrial & Mobile operators, in addition to Telco’s & ISP’s; by way of offering solutions like DTV Middleware’s, applications & Value Added Services, Hybrid & IPTV as Managed Services, turnkey Hotel TV & Community TV solutions, Open Internet based targeted IPTV (for ethnic communities) & OTT Solutions. These solutions are offered as integrated solutions either as a Managed Service, as a PAAS or as deployable custom built end-to-end solutions.

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The Telecom Equipment Manufacturer’s Association (TEMA) of India has raised concern in a response to the recent report on the Indian ‘Indian Telecom Equipment Manufacturing sector’. In a communication to the Honorable Minister of Communication & IT Mr. Kapil Sibal, TEMA has pointed out that the report is an attempt to polarize and paralyze the efforts of Government of India to incentivise the local innovation and manufacturing.

The study done by Booz & Co was sponsored by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). According to TEMA, contrary to the Government of India’s thought process, the report seems to conclude that there is not much scope for the Indian Telecom Equipment Manufactures in the current world scenario. According to the Booz & Co report, “India will account for only three (3) percent of the global market by 2020, therefore self-reliance is not a viable tool to drive the globally competitive economies of scale”.

According to the TEMA communication to the Honorable Minister of Communication, the telecom equipment market is expected to grow to US$40 billion by the year 2020, up from current level of US$ 10 billion, is in itself is attractive proposition for the current foreign equipment suppliers to discourage home grown telecom equipment manufacturers.

“The report of Booz & Co is based on surmise and conjecture completely ignoring the growth potential of the domestic manufacturing in India, to which Government of India is committed. This report in a way takes this great country back to the post industrial revolution and British Raj in India, wherein local industry was systematically eroded in order to promote the British Industries. During that time, few Indian businesses supported export of indigo and cotton and import of cloths spun by factories in Lancashire and import salt from UK”, said Mr. Ashok K. Aggarwal, Honorary Director General, Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association (TEMA).

The TEMA communication further suggested that the Government of India should not take into consideration the Booz & Co Report as it is against the national interest.

“The Government should not act at the behest of the foreign equipment manufacturers who are trying to ensure that domestic manufacturing does not take place in this country and we, as a nation, always remain dependent on the virtual cartel of a handful of foreign suppliers in the field of telecommunication which is highly sensitive to fiscal/physical security, strategic and forms part of critical infrastructure of the nation, “added Mr. Aggarwal

About TEMA

Established in 1990, Telecom Equipment Manufacturers’ Association of India (TEMA) is recognized by the Government of India as the National Apex body to represent telecom Technology Providers, Global and Indian, Private and Government owned companies.

TEMA plays the critical role of advising the government and influencing decisions relating to Indian telecom industry. TEMA also enjoys the privilege of proposing names of technical experts from the industry to various telecom committees of the Government of India and major national industry associations for valuable contributions at every stage of the evolving telecom manufacturing sector in the country. TEMA has membership of more than 150 members.

     
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