MITSOT in association with CII had organized TeleTech for the third consecutive year on 18th Jan, 2012 at Hotel The Westin, Koregaon Park, Pune from 9:30 to 18:00 hrs. The theme for the one day conference being, “NTP 2011 : Realizing the vision”, this initiative by MITSOT-CII received a huge response from 103 corporates and 38 academicians who attended the seminar.

MIT Pune’s MIT School of Telecom Management (MITSOT) is an AICTE approved college, one of the premier institutes in India established in 2007. MITSOT provided this platform for

• Service Providers,
• Infrastructure Providers,
• Equipment Manufacturers,
• Value Added Services (VAS) Players
• End Users

The objective of this conference was to discuss about the New National Telecom Policy 2011 benefits for "Aam Aadmi".
The session ‘Made in India’ promoted India as the next manufacturing hub. The VAS focused on developing vernacular content. For End Users the highlighted issues were

• Nation-wide MNP without having to pay ‘roaming charges’,
• No distinction between STD and local calls
• ‘Right to broadband’,
• Strengthen consumer protection act
• Strengthening grievance redressal mechanisms.

 

Gracing this occasion, with their expertise, the stalwarts of the telecom industry were

• Mr. Shridhar Shukla, MD – CII Pune IT and MD GS Labs Ltd., Pune
• Dr. V D Karad, Founder Director, MIT Pune,
• Mr. Hemant Joshi, Telecom Leader – Deloitte Pune.
• India, Mr. Denis Petitjean, Sr. Vice President – Global Strategic Sourcing, Amdocs India, Pune
• Dr. C S Rao, President – Corporate Affairs & Regulatory Reliance Communications Ltd., Bangalore
• Dr. MilindPande, Project Director MITSOT, Pune

The Inaugural Ceremony opened up a new chapter for the Indian telecom industry with the special highlight on release of the TeleTech Report on ‘National Telecom Policy 2011 : A pragmatic road ahead’ by the experts. This was followed by three panel discussions

 

 

 

Session 1 :“NTP 2011 – Vision, Challenges & Opportunities”.
The Panel discussion was based on the goals to set for Aam Aadmi to revolutionize this world for the coming decade, to provide the people of India secure, reliable, affordable and high quality converged telecommunication services anytime, anywhere. The esteemed panelists were,

• Mr. Rajan S Mathews, Director - General Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), New Delhi.
• Mr. Anand Dalal, Sr. Vice President – Regulatory Tata Teleservices Ltd., New Delhi.
• Mr. Hemant Joshi, Telecom Leader – Deloitte, Pune.
• Dr. C S Rao, President – Corporate Affairs & Regulatory Reliance Communications Ltd., Bengaluru.
• Mr. Amit Sood, Director - ERS Deloitte, Mumbai.

The overall discussion recognized the potential of telecommunication technology and infrastructure which will help placing India in a leadership position in the telecom sector.

Session 2 : “Made in India – The next Telecom manufacturing hub.”
The telecom leaders of India in the panel discussed and provided insights to help India achieve leadership position in telecom equipment manufacturing sector. The esteemed panelists were,

• Mr. Patrick Mathias, Vice President – Cisco Systems, Mumbai
• Mr.Anurag Deshpande,Regional Director – HCL Info systems ltd., Mumbai
• Mr. Siva Ramamoorthy, Vice President – South Asia GenBand Inc., Bengaluru.
• Mr. Prashant Bora, Founder &CEO – Byond Tech, Pune

The experts gave their views on horizontal diffusion into manufacturing, agriculture and services. With the current 3G network rollout and 4G rollout in pipeline, there will be a huge demand for Telecom Equipment Manufacturing. Creation of roadmap for India to become a leader in cutting edge, state of art technologies through R&D and Indian IPRs in global standards was also discussed.

Session 3 : “Rural Inclusion & Telecom”
This panel discussed on bridging the digital divide between the internet empowered urban India and rural India. It is the mobile which is the perfect medium for delivery of services and content to the common man through MVAS and broadband. The esteemed panelists were

• Dr. Y R Rao, M.D. – SmartBridges Telecom India & Advisor, Terranet, Secunderabad
• Mr. Krishna Durba, TMT Expert – Deloitte India, Mumbai
• Mr. Vishwas Deoskar, Global Head – University Recruitment Program IBM India, Bengaluru.
• Mr. S P Narayanan, Sr. Vice President & National Head – VAS Idea Cellular Ltd., Gurgaon
• Mr. I S Sastry, Jt. Administrator – Technical USO Fund, New Delhi
• Mr. Rahul Ambegaonkar, Director – Sales (Communication & Media) Microsoft India, Mumbai
• Dr. R Venkateswaran, Sr. Vice President & Head – Strategic Business Persistent Sys. Ltd., Pune

The telecom leaders discussed on challenges such as lack of physical infrastructure, small business growth and low productivity which is still prelevent in rural India. Therefore telecom industry has tremendous opportunities to provide the much needed services especially in education, healthcare, banking to those millions

Along with us we had in this conference
Our knowledge partner - Deloitte
Academic Partner - University of Pune
Radio partner - Red FM 93.5
Print Media partner - Business Standard.
Majority of the corporate Delegates who attended this event were from some of our associated Telcos, Prestigious institutes, Govt Orgs and some branded organizations like ●Airtel, ●ESSAR Teleholdings, ●TechMahindra, ●Idea, ●Cisco Systems, ●Micromax mobile, ●TEMA, ●Infosys consulting, ●CDAC (Center for Development of Advance Computing), ●LG, ●Reliance, ●Sterlite, ●HCL Technologies, ●GTL, ●Apalya, ●UPASS, ●Shyam, ●Yes Bank, ●Qualcomm, ●Eaton, ●Smart Bridges, ●Avaya Labs, ●IIM Ahmedabad, ●COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India), ●Persistent Systems, ●Huawei, ●AUSPI (Association of United Service Providers of India) In brief the conference was a huge success & received wide coverage from the print and voice media. The event was featured in various newspapers like ●Financial Express, ●Times of India, ●Indian Express, ●Lokmat, ●Sakaal, ●Maharashtra Times, ●Sakaal Times, ●Prabhat, ●Pudhari, ●Kesari, ●Sanj Samachar, ●Saanjwarta, and Pimpri Chinchwad Samachar. TeleTech 2012 also received a special coverage by ●DD News.
The conference promised a dynamic synergy of views, ideas and expertise on one platform, bringing in stalwarts of industry, government and the academia.