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Cost Of Mobile Phone In India:

The global mobile phone shipment was approximately 970 million units with a production value of about USD 79 billion in 2006. The market share of the top 9 manufacturers reached 90.72% and that of the top 5 manufacturers was 83.88%, and Nokia ranked first in terms of sales volume, reaching 347.5 million units.

As for the mobile phone platform, new comers will face big competitive pressure. It is quite difficult for survival without enough shipment, while the concentration degree is rather high in mobile phone industry, and plus tier-one manufacturers and platform suppliers are working more and more closely, so there has a high threshold for new comers

Mobile phone RF field basically maintains its established pattern. SKYWORKS gets very depressed in mobile phone platform field and then gives up baseband field, and now specializes in RF. As for the power amplifier for mobile phone, RFMD still stands out and controls the market alone. In addition, in the transceiver field, Qualcomm still takes the lead while NXP turns better, and STMicroelectronics holds its firm status under the big client of Nokia.

It shows no good sighs for built-in memory of mobile phone, especially in NOR flash field. The leading company Spansion lost 90 million US dollars in the year of 2006, less than USD 285 million in 2005 but it seems no reasons to be optimistic. Also, Intel had a huge loss of USD 552 million. However, the factories that specialize in NAND flash have made a considerable profit, especially Samsung and Toshiba. NOR flash manufacturers have to seek the other ways for survival in the future; otherwise, they will be purchased either by private funds or by other companies.

Mobile phone display screen is falling into the trouble of successive profit decline. TFT-LCD display screen for mobile phone has dived nearly 100% since the second half of 2005 as batch of large-size TFT-LCD manufacturers began to produce small-size display screen. Such a transfer causes a sharp rise in supply and also makes TFT-LCD become the mainstream. However, as the resolution of display screen for mobile phone gets further improved, QVGA will be the mainstream. However, it is very difficult for those large-size TFT-LCD manufacturers who began to produce small-size ones to go through the technical access to QAGA in a short time, so the price of mobile phone display screen is expected to get steady and even show a re-rise.

Mobile phone PCB market is still controlled by Taiwan manufacturers and their market share has already exceeded 50% and will be over 60% by 2007. As far as the technology is concerned, there is no obvious change and high-grade HDI still takes the mainstream. Panasonic and IBIDEN have not introduced their new technologies in a wide range yet due to the high cost. In the mobile phone PCB field, rigid-flex PCB is the hotspot. Most of mobile phone PCB manufacturers mainly engage in the RPC production while FPC manufactures are relatively independent. Whereas, the application amount of FPC is much lower, so most of PCB manufacturers prefer to make the PCB business contracted. As PCB manufacturers are quite sensitive to oil price, the continued decrease in oil price will help them to make more considerable profits.

A metallization wave sweeps over mobile phone configuration parts & shell guided by V3, which means, on the one hand, the metallization in a real way for more and more aluminium and magnesium alloys handsets have appeared; and on the other hand, the metallization of plastic shell, i.e. adopting NVCM process. Compared to plastic configuration parts & shell, metal one has a log of advantages though, it has not been promoted because of the high cost. But now, the emergence of V3 has broken the bottleneck in cost and decreased the cost. Ultra-thin mobile phone is the mainstream at present and will last a long time, and ultra-thin configuration is just the advantage what the metal material has.

There are no great changes in camera module of mobile phone. The mainstream configuration of mobile phone camera still comes to between 1.3 mega-pixels and 2 mega-pixels, but 2 mega-pixels camera is applied to high-end mobile phone and is expected to be the mainstream by 2007.

The mobile phone output is getting higher and higher in India. Basically, the assembly process for mobile phone is done there in India, but as mobile phone giants enter into Indian market successively, some matched manufacturers are planning to come here. However, as for the infrastructure and human resource, India is far enough to compare with any other country, so few matched manufacturers are willing to come here in india.

Revenue of mobile phone in India:

The total revenue in the telecom service sector was Rs. 86,720 crore in 2005-06 as against Rs. 71, 674 crore in 2004-2005, registering a growth of 21%. The total investment in the telecom services sector reached Rs. 200,660 crore in 2005-06, up from Rs. 178,831 crore in the previous year.

Telecommunication is the lifeline of the rapidly growing Information Technology industry. Internet subscriber base has risen to 6.94 million in 2005- 2006. Out of this 1.35 million were broadband connections. More than a billion people use the internet globally.

Under the Bharat Nirman Programme, the Government of India will ensure that 66,822 revenue villages in the country, which have not yet been provided with a Village Public Telephone (VPT), will be connected. However doubts have been raised about what it would mean for the poor in the country.

It is difficult to ascertain fully the employment potential of the telecom sector but the enormity of the opportunities can be gauged from the fact that there were 3.7 million Public Call Offices in December 2005 up from 2.3 million in December 2004.
The value added services (VAS) market within the mobile industry in India has the potential to grow from $500 million in 2006 to a whopping $10 billion by 2009.

VoIP In India
VoIP in India represents a great opportunity. If minor changes are made in regulations, and other issues like interoperability addressed, the market could take off in a big way.

Talking about the telephone, one does not worry how the call is being running scared or over what kind of a network one’s voice traveling. What concerns the caller is the clarity of voice and the absence of delays and jitter. 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.

Evolution of email friendly mobile phones has reached some new heights & mobile email technology has jumped a notch higher with the coming of the revolutionary, enigmatic path breaking earth shattering launch of iPhone. Although both have almost same functionalities they are some difference between the two that make them unique in their arena.

Blackberry introduced the concept of emailing from phone for the first time when it was launched. Mobile Users were completely oblivious of the fact that instead of just messaging or smsing they now had the luxury of checking their email on their very own mobile phone. It created a stir in the mobile technology

Design-wise,both the phones are quite dissimilar. The iPhone has the sleek, mimimalistic approach to design while the BlackBerry adds the already rich corporate touch to the phone with the excellent QWERTY keyboard and a great screen. While the iPhone is heavier at 135 gm, BlackBerry weighs 89.5 gm.

As for the screen’s functionality, the BlackBerry’s 480x 320 screen trumps the iPhone anyday! It’s brighter and better for everything from watching videos to photos. However, the larger size of the iPhone screen tilts the balance slightly in its favour. To answer the question of which screen is the best, the answer is clear - the BlackBerry Bold.

BlackBerry is also planning to launch its 3G phone.. The disadvantage with an iPhone is that it does not offer MMS facility.

The iPhone has multi-touch , proximity sensor screen with a great media player and internet experience. The iPhone is a multimedia and Internet-enabled mobile phone from Apple computers.

 As for the other facets, no device can come close to the BlackBerry when it comes to email. But iPhone 3G does not allow users to edit documents (MS Word/Excel/PPT) on the device.

The iPhone’s functions include those of a camera phone, a multimedia player, mobile phone, and Internet services like e-mail, text messaging, web browsing, Visual Voicemail and wireless connectivity. iPhone input is accomplished via touchscreen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The iPhone is a quad-band GSM phone.

Blackberry has an amazing texting feature called the Sure Type which make it easier for the user to type on its phone, since each key is shared for two letters & has an intelligent programming installed to check the correct spelling.

Apple’s iPhone deliver significantly longer battery life which feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback. In addition, iPhone will feature up to 250 hours—more than 10 days—of standby time.

Apple iphone’s entire top surface includes stunning 3.5-inch display, upgraded from plastic to optical-quality glass to achieve a superior level of scratch resistance and optical clarity.

The only difference is that the blackberry can be used the moment you get them activated in any of the AT&T store, whereas in case of an iPhone it needs to connect it to iTune for activation.

The iPhone is a consumer-friendly device which in its latest avatar is much more corporate-friendly its features are so simple & easy to use that the moment you start using it you would fall in love with it.

VOIP in India is now Legal

Alas, the day has come. VOIP in India is finally legal. Thanks to continuous   efforts by TRAI to push VOIP to mainstream India through ISP and Telecom Operators. Finally,India is now official a VOIP enabled country or should we say soon to be?

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is recommending unrestricted internet telephony for the country’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Around Two years ago, India allowed VOIP licenses to offer unrestricted internet telephony, but none of the mobile operators have done so far, since they are afraid VoIP would cut their profits and impact overall revenues. However with this new annoucement to open VOIP to ISP, it will be a different ballgame. The Mobile operators will be forced to join the arena since those who are left out would probably loose out forever. Since ISP’s have strong hold in the market now, they can push VOIP services as part of their broadband packages which can make life even more difficult for telecom operators.

We are expecting to see Vodafone and Bharati to launch VOIP services first. There were strong rumous that Bharati is going to launch Advertisement based Free Calls Service in India, I thought this was done in Pilot Phases. In simple words, our International calls to India will be lot cheaper. We expect this to be around 50 paise (about 1.2 USD cents). The actual termination cost could be a bit more, but provider like Reliance/Bharati/VSNL can do E1 rates for as low as 25-40 paise (lower than 1 cnets per minute). This would be huge for everyone who wants to make cheap international calls to India. VOIP Providers will enjoy better rates and with increasing competition there will be more impressive deals available in the market.We are just waiting for Govertment to start providing these Licenses to ISP and Telecom operators. We are expecting this to actually take effect by end of this year or first half of 2009.

In the present fast growing industry every company is making effort towards globalization and believes that giving faster and better support to the customers can attain globalization and VOIP is one of the products. VoIP is helping companies in taking their steps towards globalization. VoIP solutions offered by Adiance Technologies are an open source ready to be deployed for any VoIP based service provider. Adiance claims to have an entire in-house VoIP team set u which has been continuously doing research activities and developing niche technologies to provide advance solutions to the market. 

“Reliance Communications (RCom) and Microsoft  announced a strategic partnership to provide Internet protocol television (IPTV) services whereby RCom will invest $500 million as licence fee for the software, and spend an additional $500 million in setting up the IPTV infrastructure in the country. The companies have been working on the project since 2003.RCom has been testing IPTV in close to 20,000 households in Mumbai and Delhi. IPTV provides for two-way interactive communication. It allows consumers to watch TV while using the telephone line and broadband Internet connection.”

Truphone today announced Truphone Out+, a new feature that enables free and VoIP-rate calls to be made from a customer’s existing phone number. Truphone Out+ also brings carrier pre-select to Truphone customers, ensuring free Truphone-to-Truphone calls are set up whenever possibie.

Truphone Out is accessible to new customers from countries where Truphone does not yet provide local mobile numbers. Currently this means countries outside of the UK and USA. For these new customers Truphone Out+ means that a customer’s existing phone number is now displayed as their ‘calling line identification’ (CLI) when they make a Truphone call. Carrier pre-select is achieved transparently: when a Truphone call is made the Truphone servers recognise if the ‘ordinary’ telephone number being called is linked to a Truphone account. If the destination user is online, a free Truphone-to-Truphone call is setup.

VoIP in India

Although, operators like BSNL and MTNL are opening up to embrace VoIP, the tax and fee structure required by TRAI and operators make it difficult to provide VoIP services at a competitive rate. For e.g. DoT charges an additional 12.5% service tax on total charges which is relatively very high when compared around the world, makes it difficult for an Indian company to really provide world-class service at a competitive pricing, especially when a user have alternate option. What would DoT do if user directly buys credit from companies operating in US/Europe which will turn out to be lot cheaper compared to buying from India when 12.5% service tax is added ?

To make VoIP really “affordable” for companies established in India, a revolution similar to the celluar revolution in India - ‘world’s best per min charges’ - is necessary. From a technical point of view, there are companies in India which can claim a stake to provide complete infrastructure which is the best amongst the world. It is interesting to know that while most companies in world like Gtalk, Skype, or TringMe provide inter-user VoIP communication for free, BSNL/MTNL charges 10 paise per user-to-user VoIP minute (PC-to-PC) which is extremely uncompetitive.
India is amongst the top 5 counties in the world to use Smartphones. Hence, if done well, Mobile VoIP can become an extremely affordable, lucrative and convenient technology in India. Companies like TringMe are bringing in Mobile VoIP support for Smartphones so that one can use VoIP during travelling or on road and not just when one is in front of a PC. This has the potential to change the market dynamics in countries like India andChina where mobile device penetration carries a huge momentum.