Service Providers Operations in India Internet

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Service Providers Operations in India ( Internet
Mobile)
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Agenda

• Policy Initiatives
• Current Telecom Scenario
• Security related provisions in Licenses
• Internet Interception capability
• Trends
• Issues

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Policy initiatives

• 1985, the Department of Telecommunications was
  separated
• from Postal Department.
• 1986, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited Mahanagar
  Telephone
• Nigam Limited was created.
• 1991 Mobile sector opened for private
  participation (in Metros)
• 1994 Mobile (Circles) and Basic Services opened
  up
• 1997 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
  created.
• 1998 - Private Internet Service Providers at
  nominal license
• fees
• 1999 Migration to revenue share
• 2000 TDSAT Created
• NLD sector opened up
• Formation of BSNL
• 2002 - BSNL launches nation-wide Cellular
  service.
• ILD Sector opened up, Internet Telephony
  allowed

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Policy initiatives contd

• 2003 - Unified Access Services License
  introduced
• 2004 - Rationalization and further reduction of
  license fees
• Broadband policy announced
• 2005 - FDI limit (Direct Indirect) increased
  to 74
• ILD / NLD regime liberalized
• 2006 - One India Plan offering calls _at_Re 1/min
  introduced
• Scope of USO Fund was extended to
  Cellular Services
• 2008 - New UAS providers introduced in each SA,
• 2009 - 3G services a reality

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Transformation
From
To

• Monopoly service provider

• Competitive regime with multiple players

• STD tariff Rs.30/minute (1999)
• Peak cellular tariff Rs.16/minute

• Rs. 1.20 to Rs 2.40 per minute
• Rs.1 to Rs 2 per minute
• One India Re 1 per minute
• Sub 1 Rs tariff also

• 18 million fixed lines in March 1998
• Less than 0.1 million cellular in March 1998

• gt37 million fixed lines (Jan 09)
• gt362 million mobile connections (Jan 09)

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Current Telecom Scenario

• 23 Licensed Service area
• six mobile Service Providers
• six more to become operational within next one
  year
• proposal under active consideration to have five
  3G service provider in addition to the 2G service
  provider
• 37.75 million wire line subscriber (Jan 09, TRAI)
• 362.30 million wireless subscriber(Jan 09 TRAI)
• ISP
• 5.64 million broadband customers, 12.24 million
  internet customers and 88.27 million wireless
  data customers

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Security Provisions CMTS/Internet

• Right to modify - in public interest or in the
  interest of the security of the State or for the
  proper conduct of the service.
• Right to Inspect
• Requirement to furnish information
• Providing facilities to counteract espionage,
  subversive acts, sabotage or any unlawful
  activity etc.
• Right to monitor the traffic

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Security Provisions CMTS/Internet contd

• Availability of the subscribers list on password
  protected web site
• Submission of the subscribers list at regular
  intervals
• Services for proper and bonafide personal usage
  of the customer and photo verification of the
  customer must prior to provisioning of services
• No tampering of CLI

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Security Provisions CMTS/Internet contd

• Approval for Remote Access
• No RA to LIS/LIM, call content of the traffic or
  sector/data which may be notified by Licensor
  from time to time

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CMTS/UAS subscriber growth with security

• One key factor in the exponential growth of
  mobile has been the creation of an extremely
  broad based retail distribution chain
• It is estimated that there are over 7 lakh
  retailers/ points of sale from which mobile
  connections are being sold and this number is
  rising steadily
• Ubiquitous availability of mobile connections is
  easily evident in cities towns as panwallahs,
  small grocery shops, multi-purpose telecom
  centres, etc are all selling mobile connections
  across the counter
• While easy availability of service has played an
  important role in its proliferation, it has also
  brought with it concerns on how that distribution
  chain is to be managed and controlled

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CMTS/UAS subscriber growth with security contd

• Instructions regarding traceable identity,
  verification at subscription
• The verification as per the instructions to be
  completed by March 2007
• TERM Cells have been asked to carry out the CAF
  audit
• Results

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CMTS/UAS subscriber growth with security contd

• Graded Financial penalty
• Above 95 - Rs 1000/-
• 90 to 95 - Rs 5000/-
• 85 to 90 - Rs 10000/-
• 80 to 85 - Rs 20000/-
• Below 80 - Rs 50000/-

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Internet Interception

• Indigenously developed system
• Implemented in phases
• Intercepts traffic upto 1Gbps
• Data/VoIP/Chat based on filtering criteria
• 256 bit encryption between the client and server

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Internet Interception-Filtering criteria

• Data
• Keywords/email IDs and/or IP Addresses
• Segregation of intercepts into
• Mail (SMTP and POP) , Web Pages , Web mail
• Search within .doc, .pdf , .zip, .rar
• Tools for displaying the intercepts in
  appropriate forms
• Webmime
• Mailreader

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Internet Interception-Filtering criteria

• VoIP
• Caller/Called IDs/Phone Number and/or IP address
• SIP and RTP ( H.323 under implementation)
• With single click, Selected intercept is decoded,
  converted to .wav format and played back
• Dual direction voice can be played differently or
  as a single conversation
• Supports G.713, G.723, G.728, G.729, iLBC

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Internet Interception-Filtering criteria

• Chat
• User IDs and/or IP Addresses
• Yahoo, MSN/hotmail and rediff
• Tools available for viewing the intercepted chat
  in conversation format

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Telecom Trends

• M N P
• NGN
• 3G services video telephony
• MVoIP

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Issues

• Outgoing calls in case of out-roamers may not be
  possible to be intercepted
• IMEIs no longer hardwired
• Verification of Identity( not 100)
• CLI not made available across the globe
• International SIM Cards Renting/Selling
• Private IP Addresses for the GPRS based services
• Non availability of NIR
• Time synchronisation

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Key Takeaway

• License provisions to take care of security
• Existence of TERM Cells of DoT
• Responsive to the Telecom trends
• Scope for growth with security

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Questions?
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