600 million broadband connections in India by 2020

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Telecommunication has emerged as a key driver of economic and social development in an increasingly knowledge intensive global scenario, in which India needs to play a leadership role.

The National Telecom Policy-2011 envisions providing the people of India, secure, reliable, affordable and high quality converged telecommunication services anytime, anywhere. They set a target of achieving 175 million broadband connections by the year 2017 and 600 million by the year 2020 at minimum 2 Mbps download speed and making available higher speeds of atleast 100 Mbps on demand.

The policy intends to provide high speed and high quality broadband access to all village panchayats through optical fibre by the year 2014 and progressively to all villages and habitation.

Broadband Tech India 2011 – Business Conference is scheduled on 18th November 2011 at Le Meridien, New Delhi focusing on the application & technology innovations that are shaping the future of broadband in India. The event is another edition in the series of successful telecom business events conducted by Bharat Exhibitions (BE), a company engaged in offering interactive platform to telecom and ICT professionals in the form of conference events since the last one decade.

Broadband Tech India 2011 business conference would be showcasing technology developments and challenges, business strategies and market opportunities in the current Indian Broadband landscape. Rather than merely focusing on operational or technical issues, the event will investigate how the business of broadband is being strategised, namely how companies are marketing their broadband solutions and creating their business strategy in this tough environment.

Now into successful 8th year – Broadband Tech India 2011 business conference will expect more than 500 business delegates from various industry verticals (telecom & broadband service providers, enterprise, content providers, telecom equipment providers, Government Departments, Defence organizations, BFSI sector, Education and Training institutes, Broadcasting organizations, Service organizations (BPOs, retail, hospitality industry), trade associations, etc. who will congregate at this exclusive forum for sharing their views on emerging trends, technologies and services in the wire-line/wireless broadband arena.