If India has to exhaustively use its potential of becoming a key player in the new economy and emerge as an IT superpower, it requires a strong and competitive telecom sector to back it. Over the last decade, significant developments have taken place in this sector and many more evolutions are expected to happen in the recent times.

Today, India is the largest telecom market in the world. It has a huge telephone network of 29 million lines and is ranked among the top ten telecom networks in the world. Its telephone density of 2.8 telephone lines per 100 persons is far below the global average of 11 telephone lines per 100 persons. The US has a tele-density of 50 telephone lines per 100 persons, Brazil has a tele-density of 10 telephone lines per 100 persons.

The current scenario is evident of the huge scope of substantial growth opportunities for the telecom companies in India and gives the country an option of adapting new technologies.