"There was an implicit expectation that spectrum will be made available within a reasonable time so that wireless broadband services will be available soon enough as an alternative to wireline broadband" Dr. Devendra P.S. Seth, Former Member, TRAI

"With 3G services, the Indian telecom industry is set for a second telecom revolution in wireless space alongwith the sectors in which these services will be offered"

Active sharing will provide telecom companies with a means to save on rollout costs and the savings can be used to counter shrinking investments. Kasturi Bhattacharjee, Associate Director - Infocomm Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers

 

The B-O-T model is a variant of outsourcing which aims at ultimately building in-house competency.

"As vendors and customers gear up for renewed spending on technology, nothing will pass muster unless business processes improve," Melanie Turek, Industry Principal, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan 

"Going green is no more an option for telecom operators, it has become a necessity."-Rajan S. Mathews, Director General, Cellular Operators Association of India

"With about 52 percent teledensity, there is still a huge potential for growth in the rural market which is way behind at about 18 percent."

Rajat Mukarji, Chief Coporate Affairs Officer, IDEA Cellular Limited

"The challenge is that the affordability has to be met with regard to both cost of entry as well as the price of usage." –TV Ramachandran, Resident Director, Regularory Affairs & Government Relations, Vodafone Essar Limited

Guy Yaniv, VP and General Manager, Value Added Services, Comverse

"The issue before us is, will the telecom ecosystem of VAS providers, telecom companies, mobile device manufacturers, network providers be able to work together in a symbiotic manner to create a plethora of consumer demand for 3G services"-Samvit Raina, Senior Vice President and Head- Communications Media &Utilities, Patni Computer Systems Ltd.

"While the future is very exciting, there will be challenges which will unfold based on how consumer and enterprise needs shape in the 4G era." says Mehul Patel, Director for Business Development, MindTree.

"The competition from the Internet is very real and needs to be met with head-on with comparable or superior offerings."- Raghav Sahgal, Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan, Oracle Communications

"The success of 4G technologies in delivering affordable long distance national and international voice services will be dependent on apposite regulatory policies supporting their deployment."-Vijayalakshmi Chettapalli, Senior Consultant-Technical, Tech Mahindra

SC Arora, Asst. General Manager, The Bank of Rajasthan Ltd.

"Our main focus is on desktop and server virtualization to create a more centralized and secure environment to increase efficiency of assets and resources within the organization."- Sanjay Jain, CIO & Head-Global Transformation Practice, WNS Global Services

"The scope of KPO business in India looks very encouraging as the business opportunities are vast." – RP Rath, GM-Technologies, Quatro BPO Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

"As more organizations start deploying their applications on the cloud it will become easy to manage and access them from anywhere." –Chella Namasivayam, Vice President-Global IT & IS, iGATE Corporation

"Fortis is in the process of setting up its own private cloud in collaboration with Religare Technova and HCL Infosystems Ltd."–Jasmeet Singh Puri, Vice President–IT Enterprise Solutions & Corporate Affairs, Fortis Healthcare Limited

Dr. Kovelamudi Hari Prasad, MBBS, MD, CEO-Central Region, Apollo Hospials Group

"10GBASE-T requires higher bandwidth, higher dynamic range in field measurements and new installation guidelines to combat alien crosstalk."–Milind Tamhane, Vice President- Product Development-ITS and Export-Sales, Digilink

Manish Bajaj, Head-Business Development, Alcatel-Lucent, Enerprise Market Group, South Asia

Tarvinder Singh, Director-Marketing & Business Development, Motorola India Pvt Ltd

Anuj Kapur, Country Head, India, Service Delivery Solutions, Telcordia Technologies India Pvt Limited