IIMA IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence

Papers Presented in ITS India 2012 - Feb 22-24

Telecom Policy, Regulation, and Management as Drivers for Transforming Emerging Economies

The Regional ITS India Conference 2012 will be held in New Delhi, India during February 22-24, 2012. It is the first time that the conference is being held in India.

The conference is jointly organized by IIMA IDEA Telecom Center of Excellence (IITCOE) one of the seven Telecom Centers of Excellence that has been set up in public-private partnership mode at the national level.

The explosive growth in the telecom sector, especially in the Emerging Economies, coupled with rapid innovations is throwing up not merely technological but a whole lot of management, regulatory and socio economic challenges.

Indian telecom sector is one of the world's fastest growing telecom sectors. It boasts of 850 million telephone subscribers as on March 31, 2011. It is a major driver for India's high economic growth. The competitive dynamic scenario in the market is interesting for researchers, scholars, and practitioners. It is also a microcosm of the other emerging economies. This is one of the reasons why the ITS Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 2012 is being held in India.

IITCOE welcomes you to experience this excitement first hand and extends you a warm invitation to this conference. The conference offers a global forum for participants from industry, regulatory bodies, and academia.

The objectives of the conference are to:

Provide a special forum to present and discuss research and development in telecom policy, regulation and management, specially related to Emerging Economies

Facilitate sharing research based knowledge amongst academician and practitioners on several areas in telecommunications

Promote promising scholars in the field of telecommunication.

The theme of Regional International Telecommunications Society India Conference 2012 is "Telecom Policy, Regulation, and Management as Drivers for Transforming Emerging Economies". It focuses on key issues of such as -

National Broadband Policy and Outcomes (more)

Spectrum and Technology (more)

Service Adoption, Social Networking (more)

Universal Service (more)

Regulation (more)

Comparative Analysis (more)

Other Issues (more)

Planning for Special Issue

The Journal of Telecommunications Policy will consider to publish papers presented at the conference in a special issue, following a double blind review in the standard scientific journal procedure, under the leadership of one or several Guest Editors from the Program Committee. For more information of the journal, see
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/30471/description

IITCOE's public-private partnership involves the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad , India, a leading global business school, IDEA Cellular Ltd., a major telecom company in India, and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), India. It focuses on research, teaching, training and advice in the field of telecom policy, governance, regulation and management.