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Opportunity in India - June 2007
India is an obvious "potential" market for any UK company considering exports. But it is important that it is seen as a very sophisticated market. It has a middle class of 300 million people who want access to all the products common to the UK High Street. They may not yet have the purchasing power to buy at UK prices, but they do have the capability to enter into partnerships to produce locally at local prices.
This report highlights on the opportunities and expressed need in Indian Economy for all these trade clusters:
Information Communication Technologies (telecom)
Transport Technologies (aviation, automotive, infrastructure)
Medical Technologies (biotech & pharmaceuticals; healthcare)
Business Professional Services (education & training, insurance, tariffs
Tourism and Leisure (heritage & restoration, travel and tourism)
Food and Drink
Screen, Image and Sound (media)
The above highlights serve to illustrate the fact that India is ready to do business in almost every sector. It is a market, which is set to continuing growing for at least another 30 years as a result of its own demography.
Source: UK Trade and Investment
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Country report on the Indian electronics sector - May 2007
Electronics and IT hardware manufacturing in India grew by 15.6% in 2004-05 against an 8.5% growth in overall manufacturing. Total hardware production was Rs 56,000 crore (around $12.73 billion) in 2005-06 registering an annual growth of around 12%. But this growth rate may not be adequate to meet the increasing demand-supply gap and opportunities that lie ahead. Despite being amongst India's fastest growing industry sectors, integration with the global manufacturing chain has been sluggish.
Source: Asia Eco-Design Electronics
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Communications Sector Review From UKTI - August 2006
The Indian telecommunication network with more than 130mn telephone connections, is the fifth largest in the world and is the second largest among the emerging economies of Asia. Today it is the fastest growing market in the world and represents unique opportunities for UK companies in the stagnant global scenario. Tele-density, which was languishing at 2% in 1999, has shown an impressive jump to 12% by end of 2005 and is set to increase to 20% in the next five years beating the govt target by three years.
Private operators have made mobile telephony the fastest growing (YOY growth of > 70 %.) in India. With more than 85 million users (both CDMA and GSM), wireless is the principal growth engine of the Indian telecom industry and has already surpassed fixed line subscribers in early 2005. Intense competition between the four main private groups - Bharti, Hutch, Tata and Reliance and state incumbents-BSNL and MTNL has resultant in a significant drop in tariffs. There has been a drop of almost 74% in cell phone charges, 70% in ILD calls and 25% in NLD charges, resulted in a boom time for consumers. India now offers cheapest mobile tariffs in the world. The next revolution is expected to be in the area of Broadband(>256 KBPS download) where the government expects a YOY growth of more than 100 %. With the reduction in bandwidth prices and computer hardware prices brought below the magical Rs 10,000 (£ 120) the set target looks very achievable. India today also offers the cheapest Internet connection in the world.
Source: UK Trade and Investment
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Information Technology: Market Overview - January 2006
Over the past decade, the Information Technology (IT) industry has become one of the fastest growing industries in India, propelled by exports (the industry accounted for more than a quarter of India's services exports in 2004-05). The key segments that have contributed significantly (96 percent of total) to the industry's exports include - Software and services (IT services) and IT-enabled services (ITeS) ie business services. Over a period of time, India has established itself as a preferred global sourcing base in these segments and they are expected to continue to fuel growth in the future.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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Calling One India: India's next telecom revolution - August 2005
India's ongoing telecom revolution, which has created the fastest growth market in the world, could soon get another leg up. On August 4, India's Union Minister for Information Technology and Communications. Dayanidhi Maran said his government was working towards a 'One India Call' rate.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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Global mobile majors go local - February 2005
Once a market explodes, go local. Coke and Pepsi did it in India, as did Ford and Hyundai. Now, with two million subscribers being added every month, it is the turn of mobile makers to give their products an Indian makeover.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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People and Places: India's 2P advantage in IT - January 2005
Transition to the offshore model is deepening the Indian IT labour market in several ways-the supply market is acquiring new skills, diversities and market forces have ensured the spread of boom across low-cost geographies. This could give the country a strong competitive advantage as global competition perks up.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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Product development: Indian firms gain foothold - January 2005
For the last 10 years, India's IT industry has been searching for a way to move up the value chain from services to product development. A path is finally being paved.
The US$ 1.4 million, Chennai-headquartered iSoftTech is not your usual information technology (IT) services firm. Nor is it a core product development company. iSoftTech is a cusp firm - a product development services company that provides high-end design services to product development companies, working as their extended engineering team.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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Information Technology, Magarpatta City: The Farmers' Cybercity - August 2004
Magarpatta City is a modern township on the outskirts of Pune. From a distance, it resembles any other modern township that has sprung up around New Delhi or Bangalore or Hyderabad. It consists of the essential element of modern Indian urban life - a mini golf course, an artificial lake, a cyber city with buildings in gleaming glass and multistoried residential buildings.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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Information Technology: E-Enabling Kerala's Backwaters - July 2004
Move over literacy. Welcome e-literacy. That is the message from alappuram, a Muslim majority district, tucked away in the northern corner of Kerala. In June 2004, Malappuram became the first, completely e-literate district in India, run on the backbone of India's largest rural wireless network.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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Chip Designing Arrives in India - June 2004
When Texas Instruments became the first multinational technology company to set up a design base in India, there were sniggers all around. Socialist government, red tape, poor infrastructure, the usual negatives were trotted out by sceptics. Taking a bull-headed view, Texas Instruments went about setting up its operations based on a single hunch: the quality of TI research recruits would offset the other problems.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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IT Software, Portals in India: The Second Coming - June 2004
When dotcoms crashed across the world in 2000 and 2001, few in India believed that the Internet economy would take rebirth again so soon. Revenue models based on advertisements and banners were poohpoohed. As many bit the dust, survival became the only rule of the game even for players who'd raised millions through public issues, angel investors and venture capital funds.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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It Software, Scaling Up: TCS Style - June 2004
There is no dearth of Indian companies aspiring to go global; nor is there a paucity of Indian firms who've managed to established a beachhead overseas. But unlike many other big Indian companies who dream about becoming multinationals one day, the country's largest software services company, Tata Consultancy Services has been a bona fide global company-- for a good many years.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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Information Technology: How Kerala has Leveraged People Power - May 2004
In 2000, when the CII conducted the millennium's first survey to gauge investment preparedness of various states in India, Kerala's overall ranking of 3 astonished many. Along with the east Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura -- Kerala is the only other state in India that has been regularly run by a communist coalition. How could a bastion of communism be showing the way to other Indian states?
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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Telecommunications, Broadband: Laying the Groundwork for the Boom - May 2004
The broadband revolution is now at the tip-off point in India. Industry experts believe that in the next few months the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the country's telecommunications regulator, is expected to recommend that India's government-owned telecom companies - MTNL and BSNL - should open last mile access to private companies.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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Information Technology Enabled Services - June 2003
IT Enabled Services (ITES) has been the key driver of growth for the Indian IT industry. The ITES-BPO sector in India grew at over 46 per cent - from US$ 2.5 billion in 2002-03 to touch US$ 3.6 billion in 2003-04. This sector is estimated to register a growth of about 40 per cent in fiscal year 2004-05 to reach revenues of US$ 5.1 billion.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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IT Enables Services in India: A perspective - January 2003
The term 'IT-Enabled Services' is distinctive to India, since world-over these services are commonly referred to as, Business Process Outsourcing services. However, in the Indian context, the term IT-enabled services is used to refer to a range of services, such as customer interaction, back office operations, data entry, transaction processing, transcription, content development, animation, as well as remote education and research.
Source: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
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