Good infrastructure is not something that flows out of economic progress, but rather something that comes before it.
Provision of world class telecommunications infrastructure and information is the key to rapid economic and social development of the country.A major part of the GDP of the country is contributed by this sector
Without rural economic development, India has little chance of
achieving growth rates required to become a developed nation.
Furthermore, economic development is both a cause and a consequence of
urbanization. Clearly, in the Indian context, urbanization through
further rural to urban migration is both unsustainable and socially
disruptive. Therefore urbanization of the rural population will have
to be achieved in the rural areas.
The model called Rural
Infrastructure & Services Commons (RISC) has the potential for
achieving the multi-faceted goals of sustainable development. It uses
limited resources efficiently by focusing them in specific locations
that are accessible to a sufficiently large rural population, such as
that of 100 villages.

A RISC provides a complete set of services and functions. Each service
provider itself is a customer of other services co-located on the RISC.
The banker uses the internet and postal services, and the internet
service provider uses the banking and postal services, and so on. They
make each other mutually viable and even possible. All these economies
essentially lower the cost of service provision and, in a competitive
market, makes them more affordable.

Telecom Industry Can be devided into following parts:-
Independent Software vendors
Original equipment manufacturer
Equipment vendors
System intigrators
Service providers.
Mvno
The economy has posted an excellent average growth rate of 6.8%
Telephones – main lines in use: 48.917 million
Total mobile connections-58.573million
telephone density remains low at about seven for each 100 persons nationwide but only one per 100 persons in rural areas and a national waiting list of over 1.7 million; fastest growth is in cellular service with modest growth in fixed lines

expansion of domestic service, although still weak in rural areas, resulted from increased competition and dramatic reductions in price led in large part by wireless service; mobile cellular service (both CDMA and GSM) introduced in 1994 and organized nationwide into four metropolitan cities and 19 telecom circles each with about three private service providers and one state-owned service provider; in recent years significant trunk capacity added in the form of fiber-optic cable and one of the world’s largest domestic satellite systems, the Indian National Satellite system (INSAT), with five satellites supporting 33,000 very small aperture terminals (VSAT)

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