Telecommunications: at least a phone in every village

Author

Pradhan, Bishnu D.

Author_Institution

Centre for Dev. of Telematics, India

Volume

31

Issue

3

fYear

1994

fDate

3/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

47

Abstract

India is home to more than 850 million people, but to very few telephones. For every thousand inhabitants, it has only about eight phones, versus an average of 100 in the developing world, and 600 in developed countries. Here, the author describes how liberalization, in short, while forcing Indian manufacturers to compete against multinationals with state-of-the-art technologies, is opening up opportunities in improving this situation. Indian companies will continue working with the multinationals on joint development, not only as a way of leap-frogging into the state of the art, but to bring the country up to world standards in the availability and quality of its telecommunications.<>

Keywords

telecommunication services; telephone systems; India; availability; joint development; manufacture; multinationals; quality; standards; state of the art; state-of-the-art technologies; telecommunications; telephones; Communication switching; Digital systems; Manufacturing; Out of order; Switches; Technology management; Telecommunication switching; Telematics; Telephony; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Spectrum, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9235

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/6.265407

Filename

265407