Research

India Handbook – Overview of Indian Wireless Market  

The Indian Wireless market is growing at a rapid pace, adding 1.5M - 2M subscribers per month for the past several months, making this to be one of the fastest growing markets in the world today. In terms of number of phones, India is the fifth largest market after China, USA, Japan and Germany. The tele-density in India has increased from 7.15 per cent on April 30, 2004 to 9.15 per cent in April, 2005. As of March 2005, India had more than 52m wireless subscribers, and industry estimates of subscribers for 2006 and 2007 are in the range of 75M and 150M respectively.

Mobile penetration overtook fixed line penetration in November 2004.   The cumulative (Fixed + Mobile) tele-density stands at over 9% today which is much lower than equivalent developing nations. The Government has recognized that access to telecommunications is essential for social and economic development and has laid down very aggressive plans to increase mobile penetration. It has publicly stated the target of 250M phone connections by 2007 where most of the increase is expected to come from the mobile sector. BSNL a government owned mobile operator has taken this cue and is about to issue a mammoth 60M line RFP with very aggressive deployment timeframes.

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India Handbook – Overview of Indian Venture Capital Market

Venture capitalists invested some $928 million in 80 deals for entrepreneurial companies in India during 2007, according to the Quarterly India Venture Capital Report.
This was a whopping 166% increase over the $349 million invested in 36 deals in 2006 and easily the highest total on record for the region.
The report found nearly 48% of all venture financing deals in India were for Information Technology (IT) companies, as 38 rounds were completed, accounting for $384 million, more than India's entire 2006 venture investment total.
 The most popular recipients of venture capital in the IT industry were companies in the Web-heavy "information services" sector, which accounted for 22 deals and nearly $141 million in investment. Among the deals in this area was the $10 million second round for Bangalore-based Four Interactive, an online provider of local information on food, events, lifestyle, shopping and more.

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