India: Broadband Situation and Plan for Future

Dr. Rajendra Kumar, IASJoint Secretary

Dept. of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Govt. of India

4th Dec, 2013

Agenda

Overview

Bandwidth Situation in India

Focus Areas

IT Network for e‐Governance

Way Forward

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OverviewOverview

1.2 billion people

Per Capita GNI: US$1530 (2012)

Per capita GNI (PPP): US$3840 (2012)

Multi‐lingual – 22 Official Languages

Multi religious

Multi‐ethnic

Federal Structure

35 States & Union Territories

70% Rural, 600,000+ villages

Multi‐party 

Multi‐tiered democracy

250,000+ Local Bodies

IndiaIndia: : diversity & developmentdiversity & development

Path Ahead

Unified ICT infrastructure

Broadband infra in every village

Holistic strategic control

Unified IT network for e-Governance .

Efficiency & Reliability in service delivery

Challenges

Fragmented & non-optimal utilization of infrastructure

Need for huge capacity building

Increased cyber security threat

Last mile reach

Scaling up for 1 billion potential customers

Connectivity

Total subscribers-899m

Broadband subscribers-15.36m

Rural teledensity – 41.7%

Private players’ market share: 88.3%

Lowest rates in the world

8 wireline and 13 wireless TSPs

Source :Trai Report– Nov 2013

India

1/6th of world popl.

4th largest economy

High economic growth

Major thrust on services

Young population

IT sector: >US$100b

India: OverviewIndia: Overview

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Bandwidth Bandwidth SituationSituation

http://trak.in/tags/business/2013/http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/

India: Current Status in Asia Pacific Region

More Users than all countries together (excluding China)

Low penetration in rural areas accounting for 70% of population

Scaling existing as well as creating new infrastructure to meet citizen expectations

Broadband (>10Mbps) Connectivity Rating

http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/

Low Penetration in Rural areas

Heterogeneous environment

Growth expected after all initiatives planned are implemented

Submarine Cable Map – Lesser Coverage

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Source: http://www.desirethis.com/50/submarine-cable-map

India’s Estimations for Broadband GrowthActive Internet Users

Active Internet User Pattern

Overall Internet Users

Mobile Internet Users

Source : IMRB

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Focus Focus AreasAreas

Growth Drivers

45% of Indians in urban areas by 2050High propensity to pay for premium prices

Two-thirds of India's consumers in rural areasSpending power increasing steadilyMobile utility applicationsE-Governance/ M-GovernanceAgriculture/Education/Health

New delivery channelsNew consumer marketsProductivity enhancementsCost savingsTeleworking

Broadband: Opportunity in IndiaLeast broadband penetrated markets with current penetration of less than 2 percent.

1. Low PC penetration

2. Limited wire line infrastructure

3. High tariffs

4. Limited presence in rural areas

5. The legacy wireline infrastructure is not scalable for providing high speed broadband services

6. Availability of low cost devices

7. Young demographic profile

8. High use of VAS by other sectors

The Services Model

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Applications must focus on content customization and multi-lingual delivery of end-to-end services

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Pan India Pan India BBBB

Broadband for AllBroadband for All

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Integration of Integration of NetworksNetworks

SWAN

NKNNOFN

Create Network Infrastructure for E-Gov in the states. To connect all

the offices in the state.

Key Stakeholder:States

Key Features: Creation of Network up to the block level.

Funded by Centre and Bandwidth from the states

To connect 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats (GP) in country

Key Stakeholders: BBNL, TSPs

Key Features:

Bridge connectivity b/w GP and blocks

Not a service provider.

To connect 1500+ institutes in country using high bandwidth & low latency network

Key Stakeholders:DeitY, NIC

Key Features: Virtual Classrooms, Collaborative research, Data centric services, Grid Computing, Remote Labs, etc,

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Finance

Government

Infrastructure providers

Corporates operating in rural arease-Service

providers

Communities/ markets

Government NGOs

Business

Delivery Network

Network VillageConnectivity

Agro-business

Consumer products

Informati

on,

servic

es,

money,

good

s?

Hardware,software,connectivity

Policy,funding schemes

Policy,funding

e-Gov

ernan

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initiativ

es

Information

services

New business

services

Delivery Network and Stakeholder Delivery Network and Stakeholder Integration Integration

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Way Way ForwardForward

Integration of existing networks to ensure optimum

utilization

Broadband connectivity up to panchayats through

NOFN

Last mile connectivity through TSPs

Mobile connectivity (3G, 4G) to play a big role

Provisioning of G2C, G2B, G2G, and B2C services

Mobile platform for delivery to end users

Comprehensive cyber security framework

Way Forward

Thank You

Questions? Comments?