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Once these issues are addressed, the underlying technology really does not matter to the regular user, be it VoIP or standard PSTN. All he is concerned about is that the message should be conveyed.
In this perspective, VoIP as a technology has over the years managed to gain a certain level of approval, if not a omnipresent presence. It all started with organizations establishing closed user group (CUG) voice links between their head office and branch offices. The concept has served companies well, particularly large enterprises and those organizations in industry verticals such as banking, logistics, and IT.
Earlier the technology was plagued by problems in large numbers namely network latency, spendings, jitters, and other issues that spoiled its image as a promising information communication technology. Regularly these have been taken care off, and stage has been set for extensive adoption of VoIP/ IP telephony in India.
The market for Internet telephony has experienced exceptional growth over the last two years, and the sales of IP PBX systems witnessed a growth of 65% in 2006-07. The technology is estimated to account for 65% of the entire enterprise voice market by 2008. IP Telephony revenues touched $209 million in 2007.
The acceptance and adoption of VoIP in India is increasing, and the market is showing signs of maturity. The growth in the Indian market though is relatively slow when compared to that in other APAC markets such as Australia; the overall outlook, however, is quite positive.
Broadband In India:
Indian Broadband internet has observed a remarkable enlargement in the last few years especially after india’s telecom major Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) launched its DataOne broadband services. When VSNL
Indian Telecom Revolution
Complete situation has changed when big private players like Reliance, Tata and Bharati entered the Indian telecom sectors. Then there has been a remarkable change in India’s telecom sector with enormous enhance in mobile phone population and added features with land phones like phone book, sms, ring tones, caller line identification (CLIP), speaker phone, call waiting, call forwarding etc. After the introduction of fibre optic technology it was easy to transfer huge amount of data with a nominal cost. This further reduced end user costs thus bringing down national (STD) and international (ISD) calling charges worldwide.
High Speed Internet and Added Features
Again the situation changed in India after BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) introduced Dataone ADSL broadband service.With MPLS based ip structure Dataone is able to provide reliable high speed internet connection up to 8mbps. Now separately from high speed internet connection telecom companies are also offering features like bandwidth on demand, video and audio conferencing, content based services like video on demand, interactive gaming, live and time shifted TV, video multicast services for applications in telemedicine and distance learning and dial VPN services. Main advantage with DSL/ADSL technology is that it can move large amount of data through normal copper wire. So telecom companies can make use their existing telephone lines for high speed broadband connection.
Attractive Schemes from Airtel, BSNL, Reliance Infocom and Tata Indicom
Now telecom majors are coming up with new schemes to attract more customers. Apart from time limited and bandwidth limited schemes now they are coming up with many unlimited plans and extra features. BSNL Broadband has two new unlimited plans, Home Plan UL 900 Plus and Home Plan UL 900. Airtel Broadband has extra features like Games on demand which allows customer to download and play unlimited number of games for a nominal fee per month. Tata indicom broadband has both prepaid and postpaid options. Reliance broadband has features like online bandwidth select, per minute charges and bonus bandwidth.
Broadband Internet through Coaxial Cable
There are many other broadband players in India like Sify Broadband and MTNL Broadband. Also there are other type of broadband operators using coaxial cable for broadband connection like Hathway, Asianet Communications and ZeeNext. In India broadband penetration is going in a very fast rate and soon 128 and 256 kbps would become a history.