Indian telecommunications industry set to develop further

21. January 2021

Telecom executives are dissatisfied with the implementation of announced goals, according to a global survey by EY Research. About half, 46 percent, believe the lack of long-term roadmaps is preventing the adoption of automation operations and processes. Sixty-seven percent lamented the lack of expertise and experts to improve the use of artificial intelligence. Four out of five executives surveyed are reassessing the introduction of automated processes or revising existing plans, according to the survey.

India is seeing similar approaches. The telecommunications industry there is undergoing a transformation from a real world to a virtual one. Whereby virtual world here means the Internet, which is brought to the end customers by the numerous providers. Due to our dependence on the internet, the amount of data transmitted wirelessly in India has increased from 6,900 petabytes in December 2019 to 8,280 petabytes in April 2020. From this, it can be inferred that the telecom segment of India is one of the few growth sectors of the economy. For instance, the provider Airtel recorded a growth of 0.9 percent in the last quarter.

Currently, numerous Internet providers and service providers are preparing for the increasing demands and are expanding their infrastructure accordingly. Telecom giant Airtel gained 226,000 new subscribers to its digital television service in the previous quarter and added an additional 10 Tbps to its network capacity. In addition, Airtel is the first provider of vRAN (Virtualized Radio Access Network) based on its 4G network. There was also progress in telecom security and new regulations came into effect. Since October 2020, the encryption protocols of all telecom products must be certified by India’s TEC. TEC is the abbreviation for Telecommunication Engineering Center and the competent authority in India when it comes to TEC certification for telecommunication products.

TEC certification has been around many years before 2019 as a voluntary certification, but since April 2019 the certification has been mandatory and every year the Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC) expands the certification catalog and adds more telecom products.

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