* Indian Telecom Industry

Dynamic growth of the present-day telecommunications market makes operators keep looking for new and creative ways to beat increasing competition. The times when that competitive struggle was won by an operator with the largest network are gone for good. What counts today is efficient network management and fast launch of new services rather than having kilometers of cables and hundreds of staff. The battle is not won by those who possess the most but by those who know how to manage their infrastructure more effectively. 

Telecom companies face a unique set of challenges that stem from technology trends and customer demands. The convergence of applications, networks or content in this new-age information super highway has become the next path-breaking move in core mass-market technology providing single connectivity and integrated user experience.

Telecommunication has supported the socioeconomic development of India and has played a significant role to narrow down the rural-urban digital divide to some extent. It also has helped to increase the transparency of governance with the introduction of e-governance in India. The government has pragmatically used modern telecommunication facilities to deliver mass education programs for the rural folk of India

India's telecommunication network is the second largest in the world based on the total number of telephone users (both fixed and mobile phone). It has  enabled by the mega telephone networks and hyper-competition among them. 

According to the Internet And Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)

• Indian telecom industry underwent a high pace of market liberalisation and growth since 1990s  
• the world's most competitive and fastest growing telecom markets.
• Indian Industry has grown twenty times in just ten years - 37 million subscribers in 2001 to 846 million subscribers in 2011.
• India has the world's second-largest mobile phone user base - 929.37 million users till May 2012
• World's third-largest Internet user-base -190 million as till June 2013.
• One of the lowest call tariffs in the world

Major sectors of the Indian telecommunication industry are telephony, internet and television broadcast Industry.

The ongoing process of transforming into next generation network, employs an extensive system of modern network elements such as digital telephone exchanges, mobile switching centers, media gateways and signalling gateways at the core, interconnected by a wide variety of transmission systems using fibre-optics or Microwave radio relay network