India is world’s second-largest telecommunications market. The Government Policies are encouraging competition thereby fueling predatory pricing and industry consolidation.
Government’s easy market access to telecom
equipment and a proactive regulatory framework has ensured availability of telecom services to
consumer at affordable prices.
Driven by strong adoption of data
consumption on handheld devices, the total mobile services market revenue in India is expected to touch US$ 37
billion in 2017, registering a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 5.2 per cent between 2014 and 2017,
according to research firm IDC.
Users connecting to Wi-Fi at an airport,
coffee shop, library or a hotel—have all used an open Wi-Fi network. Strong need is to be connected in this
digital world - be it at their homes, in offices, in colleges, at railway
stations, bus stops, cafes or airports,
millions worldwide latch on daily to paid and free Wi-Fi hotspots to surf the
Net on their mobile devices. Globally it
is estimated that public Wi-Fi hotspots would grow to 340 million by 2017
amounting to 1 hotspot for every 20
people, as against the current ratio of 1 hotspot for every 150 people (Source
iPass and Maravedis Rethink). 