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President Kalam to
Inaugurate India Telecom 2006
New Delhi, December 12, 2006
For the first time, telecom majors from across the world
will come together on a single platform at India Telecom 2006,
a three-day international exhibition-cum-conference being
organised by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT),
Ministry for Communications and Information Technology,
Government of India, in association with FICCI and Telecom
Equipment Manufacturers Association (TEMA).
India Telecom 2006 the biggest showcase of the telecom
industry will be inaugurated by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, President
of India on 14 December at Pragati Maidan. Shri Dayanidhi
Maran, Union Minister of Communications and Information
Technology will deliver the keynote address at the inaugural
session. Dr Shakeel Ahmad, Minister of State for
Communications and Information Technology will also be
present.
Over two hundred companies are expected to participate in
the international exhibition and conference. In the exhibition
the Indian telecom industry will be represented by companies
like Bharti Airtel Limited, BSNL, C-DOT, Hutchison Essar
Mobile Services Ltd, COAI, Qualcomm India Pvt Ltd. Reliance
Communication Ltd., etc. Among the international participants
there will be companies from Canada, China, Singapore, Hong
Kong, and Italy while Taiwan, Korea and US companies will be
seen in independent pavilions.
The highlight of India Telecom 2006 will be the CEO’s
Roundtable with Dayanidhi Maran Minister for Communications
and Information Technology Government of India, on the first
day. It will be an interactive session of all the telecom CEOs
with the Minister. Nripendra Misra Chairman, TRAI and D.S.
Mathur, Secretary, DoT will also address the session. Some of
the participants at the Roundtable will be Anil Ambani,
Chairman, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, Sunil Bharti Mittal,
CMD Bharti Enterprises, Nandan Nilekani CEO, Infosys, Shashi
Ruia, Chairman ESSAR Group, A.K. Sinha CMD, BSNL, R.S.P. Sinha
CMD, MTNL and Sanjeev Aga, MD, IDEA Cellular.
Concurrent to the exhibition would be technical seminars
and conferences. The objective of the summit is to discuss new
growth drivers that are revolutionizing the telecom sector in
India and around the world. It would also focus on showcasing
the huge potential that India holds in this sector for
inviting investments.
One of the sessions will focus on “Innovation and Telecom
equipment Manufacturing” with an objective to attract
investment in manufacturing and making India as next hub for
telecom equipment manufacturing. During the last one and half
years, all these major world players have announced
investments in India to the extent of over US $ 18 billion
(about Rs.80,000 crores). World leaders in ICT like Intel,
Cisco, SemIndia - AMD, Microsoft, Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia,
Kyocera, Siemens, LG, Samsung and others, have already set-up
or announced large investment plans for India in hardware
manufacturing or chip design or R&D or to develop software
products. This vividly establishes the investment friendly
climate in India.
The first session on 15th December would be on Regulatory
and Policy Imperatives. Shri Nripendra Misra Chairman, TRAI
will chair the session, while the theme address would be
delivered by Ambassador David A Gross, US Co-ordinator for
international Communication and Information Policy, US
Department of State. Alan Hadden, President, Global Mobile
Suppliers Association will also address the session.
The other sessions would be on content application and
regulation in the era of convergence, Innovation and telecom
equipment manufacturing and India’s role in high growth
markets.
The Valedictory session of the conference will be addressed
by Dr Shakeel Ahmad Minister of State for Communications and
IT. Rajan Bharti Mittal Chairman Infrastructure committee
FICCI, P.S. Ramesh, President TEMA and Sanjeev Aga Chairman
COAI will also address the session.
India Telecom 2006 is being sponsored by BSNL, Nokia,
Ericsson, Reliance Communications and ZTE. MTNL is the
co-sponsor while the Associate Sponsors are Airtel, Idea
Cellular, Tata Indicom, Qualcomm and UT Starcomm. The
Conference is being sponsored by Ericsson, Nokia, Idea,
Telisma, ADC while Ernst and Young are the Knowledge Partners.
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