Digital India by CII

Digital India www.telecomlive.com 17 there were times when we were left behind. We were the country in 1851 when the first landline was built. Then there were phases when we were very strong and there were periods we suffered. Now is the time when again the world is changing towards digitisation and we as nation should not beleftbehind. As on today our broadband penetration is only 2-3 pc. This has to be taken to the world level of 70 pc. For doing this we need right kind of spectrum, technology which can reach to all the rural areas. The biggest development that is taking place is LTE which can transmit data at a fast speed and also it has multiple advantages as it is specifically designed for data. But to make it work in the best possible manner, other requirement is the fibre. Wehavetotakefibreconnectivitytothelastmile. India as a country has got multiple challenges and as industry through our bodies we have been talking to government about these challenges. And the good thing is that our Prime Minister is talking about digitisation and lot of good things are happening like spectrum sharing & trading. Even when government is trying to address those problems, some of the problems in this country is absolutely unique. As industry, we have to keep raising those issues and I am sure we will reach to somekindofsolutiontothoseissues. There are issues which don't have set policies, set guidelines and every time industry face issues. Take the example of towers. This is a simple physics: unless you have 'n' number of towers, you can't have the network and if you don't have the network then you will not be able to make calls. There are issue that are going around towers. Somebody has to take a call. States have their own rules, municipal corporations have their own rules. They often seal the towers and there are landlords, mafias. So many things are happening. Weasanationhavetofindasolution. One single solution to that problem is that we should make it as an essential service. It is not that anybody or everybody can bring down the tower. It is something that should be protected as it is an essential service and govern- ment should come out with the rules. Same way radiation. There is always noise about it. Government has made rules and those are very stringent and even then we see issues are beingraised. As far as technology is concerned, it will keep evolving. None of us can foresee what will happen after 5 or 10 years. But one thing is very clear, as a country if we don't want to be left behind, we should work to make sure that we take broadband to the last mile by providing the right kind of spectrum,technologyandpolicy. We need to build massive datacentres and use algorithms for intelligent actionable information Sandeep Girotra, Nokia Networks Technology today has become as essential as electricity at home. We just can't live without it. And technology needs to work discretely, securely in the background, for some- how translating an impact that can change our lives for a betterway. As marketers we have looked at segments which are socio economic class. As government we have to look at people who live in certain city, certain income class, caste, religion, etc. So these are very broad brush parameters by which the segmentations have been done in our society and in our market. I do believe, technology has the capability of creating a segment of one. Not only we will be able to see the world in the segment size of one but will be able to service eachofthesesegmentinitsownuniqueway. Imagine a world where me, my children, parents, spouse, microwave, refrigerator, car etc, are segment's individuals. One segment of one being served individually for a moment in a day for the context it is supposed to serve. That's the vision technology bringing in. We actually called it as programmable world. And how will it get enabled? It will be enabled by sensors. It will get enabled by resilient, secure telecommunication network. It will be serviced by very strong big analytics algorithm kind of engines.This programmable world will actually unlock the human possibilitiesoftechnology. Imagine a scenario and it's a real one. Water, which is one of the scare resources in the world and 20 pc of this gets wasted due to leakage and so on. Now let's take the example ofBeijing,ituses 950bngallonsofwaterinayear.About20 pc of it is 119 bn gallons, which is 2 years' regulated water supply for a country like Finland. So how effectively the technology, if it can, sense the leakage, deal with it where needed,canhelpthesocietyatlarge.Thisisoneexample. Second example: in India we lose about 200,000 precious lives in road accidents which is 15 pc of world's total accidental deaths with only 1 pc of vehicle population. Now, is it possible that with connected cars and sensor controlled traffic lights and automated driving, we can actually bring that to zero. These are the kind of opportuni- TelecomLIVE October 2015

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