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Cellular Users in India
The year 2002 has witnessed a 76% growth in subscriber numbers as compared to 2000, according to Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). During 2001, circle C networks grew highest at 110% followed by circle A at 90.5%, metros 81% and lastly circle B at 50%. The year ended with an addition of 254, 019 cellular subscribers during December, taking the cumulative cellular base to nearly 5.5 million. While Delhi is on top in terms of additions (42,619) as well as installed base (8.7 lakhs), it is closely followed by Mumbai, with 40,481 additions and an installed base of about 8.32 lakhs. Chennai and Calcutta are far behind with an installed base of about 229,015 and 225,605, respectively. While metros added 107,888 subscribers, category "A" circles of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnatak and Tamil Nadu saw an addition of 81,977 subscribers. In the "B" circles (comprising of Kerala, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Wes Bengal) the cellular base went up by 57,123 in December 2001. The states within the "C" category circle, including Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Assam and in the North Eastern states, the cell subscribers increased to 1.93 lakh in December 2001, up from 1.86 lakh subscribers in October 2001.
Economic Times, January 11, 2002

Basic Telecom Services
The basic telecom services market in India is expected to grow at a rate of 18.5% per annum to Rs. 53,200 crore by 2004-05 from the current Rs. 27,000 crore, according to a Cris Infac report. The total market for telecom services is expected to grow at 24% annually from Rs. 32,500 crore in 2000-01 to Rs. 77,700 crore in 2004-05. The high growth rate would be driven by an increase in the number of telephone lines from 32.2 million by end March 2001 to 59.3 million by end March 2005.
Financial Express, December 18, 2002

CRM Services
International Data Corp. (IDC) sees worldwide spending on CRM services reaching more than $125 billion by 2004, up from about $34 billion in 1999.

Mobile Commerce
The global consultancy Accenture, predicts that mobile commerce revenues will reach $20 billion by 2005 in the United States alone.

Instant Messaging
By 2003, free instant messaging services will be used by workers in 70% of companies worldwide, Gartner predicted. IDC says, the number of teleworkers in Europe will grow from 10 million in 2000 to more than 28.8 million in 2005 and expects the number of mobile workers to grow from 6.2 million in 2000 to more than 20.1 million in 2005.

China's Internet user-base at 26.5 million
Internet media has become the fastest growing means for information transmission in China over the past years, with the number of users touching 26.5 million by the end of June 2001, compared with 620,000 in October 1997. It is estimated that by year 2005, the number of computers connected to the Internet in China would reach 40 million and Internet users would total 200 million.
Financial Express, November 6, 2001

Networked Infrastructure Services
The spending on networked infrastructure services is likely to increase from Rs. 753 crore in the fiscal 2000-01 to Rs. 947 crore in 2001-02. According to an IDC report, this is 16.4 per cent of the total IT services spending as against 15.3 per cent recorded last fiscal. The networked infrastructure services market is expected to see a growth of 25.8 per cent in the current fiscal 2000-01.
The networked infrastructure services market comprises network consulting and integration as well as network and desktop outsourcing services.
The prime reason behind this growth, is the increase in the number of organisations deploying inter-organisation and intra-organisation networks.
Financial Express, November 1, 2001

E-Biz
India's e-commerce is projected to reach Rs. 25,200 crore in 2005 as more and more Indians go online to find sources, services, labour and markets as well as faster less-expensive ways of gathering information. Richard McCormic, President, International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, said that E-commerce in India has totaled Rs. 250 crore last year in business-to-business transactions and Rs. 50 crore in business-to-consumer transaction, at a seminar on "Promoting International Trade through E-Commerce" organized by FICCI.
The IT infrastructure development will reach US$ 1.98 trillion in 2004 and e-commerce spending will reach US$ 2.5 trillion in the same period; thetotal Internet economy in 2004 will be of the order of US$ 4.48 trillion, S. Laxminarayan, joint secretary in the Ministry of IT said.
Economic Times, October 30, 2001

Broadband Equipment Market
The overall broadband equipment market in India is expected to increase from Rs. 15.34 crore in 2001 to Rs. 66.52 crore in 2005 (excluding satellite), according to an IDC report (Broadband Equipment Market Forecast and Analysis). IDC predicts the number of direct access subscribers to reach 21 lakh in 2005 from 1 lakh in 2002 with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 144%.
Financial Express, October 25, 2001

SMS Usage
First developed in Europe in 1992, SMS usage has exploded world-wide. Asia is estimated to have generated about four billion SMS messages a month at the end of 2000, second only to the volume in Europe, according to Simon Buckingham, chief executive of Mobile Steams Ltd., a UK-based wireless market-research firm. The number in Asia is expected to grow more than 40% to 5.7 billion a month by the end of the year, he says.
Today, the revenue, at between three US cents to a dollar for each message and download, is impressive, especially at a time when prices of voice calls continue to drop. For instance, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. Saw its nonvoice revenue rise to between 5% to 10% of its total revenue from a mere 3% two years ago, largely due to the huge increase of SMS use in the past two years, SingTel recorded S$ 219.6 million (=US$ 1121.3 million) in total mobile operating revenue in the quarter ended June 30, 2001
Financial Express, October 24, 2001

Internet Data Centers
The Asia Pacific Internet data center market will grow from US$ 713 million in 2000 to exceed US$ 3.3 billion in 2005, mainly fueled by the regions healthy demand for outsourcing and utility services. Also, Australia, Singapore and Korea look set to dominate the market by 2005, according to predictions by IDC. The development of data centers in India is predicted at an average of 56% in 2000-2005, while China and Indonesia are slated to grow at 84% and 45% respectively.
Economic Times, October 24, 2001

Cellular Users in India
Cellular operators have turned in another month of impressive figures. In September, 2.5 lakh subscribers were added on an all India basis, taking the total number of cellular users to 47.98 lakh from 45.43 lakh last month. Last month also, cellular operators had added a record 2.5 lakh subscribers.
MTNL's dry run also ended this month, with the company increasing its combined subscriber base of 42,763 subscribers as against 29,473 last month. In Delhi the company added over 10,000 subscribers last month alone.
Meanwhile, on the basis of the figures collated by the Cellular Operators Association of India for the month of September, the BPL-Birla-AT&T-TATA combine has emerged as the largest operator with a countrywide subscriber base of 11.74 lakh subscribers in the seven circles where it currently operates.
Hutchison is the second largest operator in the country with a total of 10.09 subscribers in the four circles - Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Gujarat - where it currently operates services.
Bharti is the third largest operator in the country with a combined subscriber base of 9.83 lakh subscribers in the six circles where it currently operates services.
Delhi the single largest cellular market in the country with 7.62 lakh subscribers has widened its lead over Mumbai, which has 7.10 lakh subscribers.
Financial Express, October 18, 2001

Pharma & Biotech
The exact size of the biotech market in India is still difficult to gauge. Dr. Reddy's internal research puts it at Rs. 300 crore. Rabobank says it's worth Rs. 650 crore. Kiran Mazumdar, head of Bangalore-based biotech firm Biocon, feels that it will grow from Rs. 2,702 crore in 2000 to Rs. 4,225 crore by 2005.
The chemistry based drugs market on the other hand, is valued at Rs. 13,000 crore.
Piramal says it takes a minimum of three years and a budget of Rs. 1 crore to identify a biotech drug before it can even go into pre-clinical trials.
Businessworld, October 8, 2001 "Biotech bet"

Healthcare
The Indian market for sugar substitutes, is currently valued at Rs. 25-30 crores, according to a pharma retail audit. Out of this, Zydus Cadila Healthcare's Sugar-Free hold 53.5%, Merissant's Equal holds 22.0% and Boots Piramal's Sweetex holds 13.8%, according to ORG-MARG figures for Jan-June 2000. While Sugar Free and Equal exist only in the aspartame segment, Boots and Knoll Pharma have a strong presence in the saccharin segment. The aspartame segment where Sugar Free and Equal have a presence, is growing at an annual rate of 40% vis-à-vis the saccharine segment including Boots and Knoll Pharma, where the growth rate has crashed from 43% in 1994 to 2% in 2000.

Nanotechnology
The Japanese smart and nanotechnology-based product market, estimates Mitsubishi Research, will be worth $154.6 billion by 2010. In the US, the National Science Foundation predicts that the market for nanotech products and services will be worth $1 trillion by 2015
Businessworld, October 8, 2001 "Small & Smart"

Internet Security
According to IDC, the Firewall/ VPN security market nearly touched $1 billion in global revenues, in 2000. A 150% leap to $942.8 million, to be precise. By 2005, the market is expected to reach $4 billion. Leaders of individual price bands include Check Point, Cisco, Nokia, Netscreen, WatchGuard and SonicWall.

Telecommunications
The global very small aperture terminal (VSAT) business has been valued at over $3.5 billion in the VSAT Report 2001 by the St. Albans (UK) based COMSYS the telecommunications industry is witnessing a slowdown, the VSAT business has been growing at 10% per annum. That's because the VSAT operators have managed to exploit new niches and broaden the value proposition for technology. The report covers 200 operators and 40 products across the world.
The study goes on to predict that terminal sales to the enterprise will more than double over the next five years. The biggest player in the global market is Hughes. "India was one of the worst countries," they, "had to deal with in terms of establishing market shares." The market is full of intense rivalry and it was important to COMSYS and the operators that we establish some ground rules. It was agreed that each of the five major operators provide a guarantee of the sites they had in service. It adds that with the exception of the US, India is the most competitive market in the world. In India, Hughes Escorts has a 35% market share followed by Comsat Max with 26.7% and HCL Comnet with 22.2%.
Globally, the biggest user of VSATs is the US Postal Service with 10,400 installations. India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) is the sixth largest network with 3,400 installations.
At present, there are 6,816 very small aperture terminals in India and their number is expected to swell to around 9,000 by the end of this year. In fact, apart from the larger users, there are a number of companies who use a fewer number of terminals. Among them are the likes of the TVS Group, India Cements, the Central Electricity Authority, Amway India and Allied Domecq Spirits & Wines
BusinessWorld, September 17, 2001

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