 How do you see the overall telecom industry faring in India? The Indian Telecom industry is growing by leaps and bounds and at a rate faster than what it was expected a decade ago. We have around 600 million telecom subscribers in a population of one billion. This figure is a testimony to the massive growth story that telecom has crafted in the country. This is regarding the volumes. In terms of technology, the industry is growing at a rate of 15 per cent every month. It is, in fact, the largest and the fastest-growing telecom country in the world. How is Huawei contributing to the telecom growth of the country? Huawei is a China-based multinational company and has been around for ten years now. All the 13 telecom operators operating in the country are our customers and we basically supply the network equipments required to these operators. We being a 1 billion US dollars company, our vision is to enrich life through communication by facilitating voice and data. In a country like India with vast geography, WiMAX being the technology to reach out to the public, Huawei is poised to supply the network equipments required to upgrade this technology and fulfil the demand of this 1.2 billion population in the country. Is there a thin line of distinction between 3G, 4G and WiMAX? Please elaborate. In telecom, we call it evolution. We started with voice ten years back which brought about a revolution in the area of communication. Text was an addition to this voice. The next evolution happened when the need to download data arose and we tried going beyond texting and voice by facilitating data downloading. 2 and 2.5G historically has taken care of the data downloading part. But as we went further into downloading voice and data, speed became an important parameter in terms of how we determine the vehicle of communication. This is when speed came into the picture. The three technologies 3G, 4G and WiMAX determine the speed with which we download voice and data. WiMAX particularly is a very robust technology suitable for rural conditions. India being a large country and 70 per cent of its population living in villages, issues like the connectivity problem and electricity problem also exist. These can only be addressed by WiMAX. It is cost effective and gives decent download speeds. WiMAX is a win-win like situation, both for the operators as well as the end-users. How is Huawei gearing up for 2010? Huawei historically has always been embedded with the operator and the operator's business plans. As the operator grows, Huawei also understands the operator and grows with him. Of late, 3G auctions are taking place in the country and once this bidding is over, we will know clearly who are the operators operating in which areas of the country and in what spectrum. We are working currently with both GSM and CDMA and 2 and 2.5G operators. We have all the technologies that will enable the operator to scale up to the 3G scenario with only minimal additional investments required. We have a particular product called SingleRAN solution which facilitates this shift. We are very serious about India and the 3G opportunity that it is throwing. This, in one way, would open up various geographies of the country, though the scale and volume will be achieved only after, say, June onwards. Can we expect 3G picking up in the metros and Tier-II cities from 2011? Huawei has been rolling out 3G-enabled network for BSNL for the last six months in the southern states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka. Data streaming (a data stream is a sequence of digitally encoded coherent signals used to transmit or receive information that is in transmission), video on demand (without buffering), picture on picture call through 3G technology are some of the facilities Huawei is helping BSNL to make it available to the customers. Going forward, when the whole ecosystem of 3G is developed, when all the operators are geared up to work on the 3G spectrum and the regulatory conditions become less stringent, highest paid data transfer is what we expect from this coming June. |
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