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In a few years Indian telecom operators would go international and become top global players, said Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chennai.

“We have start-ups and established companies in India which designs wireless integrated circuit chips for the world. Our software companies provide services to most telecom companies in the world,” he elaborated.

He was addressing a media roundtable organized as part of the third International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware (COMSWARE), here today.

Dr. Jhunjhunwala predicted that companies like Tejas and Midas would emerge from the shadows and become major suppliers across the world. The IIT professor told the roundtable that Tejas was planning to go public soon.

“In the wireless area, India has the potential to be among the top players,” he further said and invited Indian overseas professionals to return home to take the domestic telecom sector forward.

Wireless user base in India was expected to top 500 million in the next five years.

Emerging India

According to Giridhar D Mandyam, vice-president of Technology at Qualcomm, India was on a pace to become the second largest mobile phone market within the next two years.

“Research into the future of wireless technology is also increasing here (in India) with respect to the rest of the world,” Dr. Mandyam said.

He added that the Indian mobile market was of particular significance to the world because of the sheer number of subscribers who relied on their mobile phone for voice services as well as Internet access.

Research and development

Krishnan Sabnani, vice-president, Networking and Network Management Center, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent pointed at the need for networks to be readied for content traffic.

“In the next few years 95 per cent of traffic will be content,” Dr Sabnani said.

Subrahmanyam Goparaju, vice-president and head of Infosys’s SETlabs urged that research and development should go beyond product development.

“Look at how economies are growing. Services economies are growing. Innovations are possible in this (services) realm,” he said.

Unwire the next billion

According to Swaminathan Krishnan, senior vice-president, Global Business Operations and CMO, Sasken, the communication industry was at a climacteric point and now needed to look for innovative ways to unwire the next billion people.

“The wire-free world has contributed significantly to inclusive growth, Communications can bridge the north-south divide, by reducing information asymmetry and helping the people from all across to participate in the economy,” he said.

Manoj Dighe, general manager, Telecom and Product Engineering Solutions, Wipro, said, “Services required in India is dramatically different from that of western countries.”

The five-day COMSWARE 2008, a leading software event in India, would conclude on Thursday.

Sify Technologies Ltd is planning to launch wireless broadband connectivity to connect the unconnected.

Informing about the launch of wireless broadband service, Raju Vegesna, chairman, managing director and CEO of the company, said, “We are currently offering broadband connection to our customers through cable operators. There have been problems being faced by our customer. We are now looking at improving our services.”

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Built in wireless capabilities are becoming almost standard equipment on most laptop and home computers these days for a couple of reasons. One of the primary reasons is cost. Adding wireless capacity is so inexpensive that it would be silly for the manufacturers not to add it. The perceived value of any machine with wireless capacity far exceeds the cost to add it. Wireless is the wave of the future, so if the manufacturers want to stay ahead of the technology curve they need to add it to all but there most basic models.

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Wireless chipmaker Broadcom Corp said on Sunday that number-two cell phone maker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd was shipping next-generation handsets that use its chips to cellular operators.

The 3G phones, which can surf the Web and download data from the Internet faster than previous generations of phones, are on their way to operators in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and elsewhere, Broadcom said.

Number-one cell phone maker Nokia has said it would buy phone chips from STMicroelectronics, Broadcom and Infineon, potentially decreasing the clout of market leaders Qualcomm Inc and Texas Instruments Inc, Nokia's long-time supplier.

Investors saw those earlier deals as key wins for Broadcom and STMicro as business from the leading mobile phone maker could promise a big-enough increase in sales volume to help them shoulder the cost of competing in the cash-intensive chip industry.

"The combined market share of those two companies (Nokia and Samsung) represents a significant market opportunity," said Yossi Cohen, who manages Broadcom's mobile platforms group.

Last year TI and Qualcomm each had about 20 percent of the mobile phone chip market, according to iSuppli. With a roughly 9 percent share, Freescale Semiconductor was next, but it is expected to lose market share as its main client, Motorola Inc, has also added TI and Qualcomm as suppliers.

Broadcom had a 1.4 percent market share in 2006 and STMicro had an almost 6 percent share.

The Broadcom chips that Samsung selected for its SGH-J750 and SGH-A401 3G phones include its BCM2133 EDGE baseband processor, the BCM2141 WCDMA co-processor, the BCM2045 Bluetooth transceiver and the BCM59001 power management unit.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson announced that the company is aggressively looking overseas, especially in emerging markets like India, for its next acquisition targets. Demand for wireless services in India, China, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Qatar and Kuwait is increasing as multinational corporations stationed there need advanced data and voice services, and some regulatory environments begin to welcome foreign investors.

Intel Corp said on Wednesday it had won a mobile WiMax chip order from the world's top cellphone maker Nokia, which will use its semiconductors in Internet-focused devices from 2008.Nokia will roll out the first WiMax-enabled Internet tablets using Intel chips in the first half of 2008, a Nokia spokeswoman told Reuters.

Mobile WiMax, the high-speed wireless standard, is expected to support Internet access at speeds as much as five times faster than typical wireless networks, though it will be slower than the fastest wired services.

Intel has had little success in the mobile phone chip market and ended up selling its cellular chip unit to Marvell last year. Its push behind short-range wireless technology Wi-Fi was a big factor in the widespread adoption of that technology.Texas Instrument is Nokia's largest chip supplier, and it also uses STMicroelectronics, Broadcom and Infineon as suppliers.

Currently, Nokia is not manufacturing mobile devices using Intel chips.Intel said the companies were testing interoperability across Intel's forthcoming WiMax silicon "Baxter Peak" for laptops and mobile Internet devices, Nokia WiMax devices and Nokia Siemens Networks' WiMax infrastructure equipment.

Intel, Nokia and NSN have already started testing devices with other device makers' products, using Sprint Nextel's laboratory in Herndon, Virginia, Intel said.

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The race to capture the next frontier of advertising – mobile – has heated up with the behemoth of search-based advertising unveiling its products for the fast-growing medium. Soon after it invited advertisers to place search ads on mobile phones through AdWords, Google has now opened up its AdSense programme to mobile content providers. India’s booming mobile phone market is among 13 countries (among them, the US, England, Germany, Russia, China) where the new ad format will be made available.

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Imagine a scenario where you are seeding about 6 million handsets in the market every month in the country (India). About 70 million handsets last calendar year and expected to be close to 85 - 90 million this year.

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Profit margins are being slashed by the handset manufacturers’ to get the volumes since the complete action is concentrated in the lower end of the market where margins are wafer thin. In fact some of the handset makers are selling some of their lower end models at a discount to roll out their stocks and realize revenues locked up in the warehouses which can be recycled into putting up new plants which can roll out fancy gizmos. These gizmos in turn would replace the old generation devices which are getting out of fashion (the upgrade cycle). The replacement period for hand-phones has com down to 3 months from about 18 months which was the norm 5 years ago since the consumer now is spoilt for choices. This actually makes for a gestation period.

Aircel Business Solutions (ABS), announced the launch of wireless Internet services through Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) in Bangalore.

ABS intends to extend WiMAX to 26 more cities in India soon. The company hopes to target IT and ITES firms; enterprises across various verticals and also the booming SME sector in India.

ABS is in the process of implementing WiMAX network in prominent locations in Bangalore. It is also identifying and deploying Wi-Fi hotspots in Bangalore with indoor and outdoor points backhauled with WiMAX.