The fifth India digital Summit took place on December 7 2010 at Delhi.  In the internet and mobile association the TRAI chairman Sharma spoke about the development of Telecom industries. He said that to resolve the issues in using the 3G technologies the regulator must took part in it. He explained about the future plans to be executed by the government in the development of broadband.

The government has focused to develop broadband in the village areas. They planned to encourage the village cable network sectors that can collect and operate networks in very bad conditions. The plan will extend broadband connections to each and every village in India that has a population of about more than 500 people. This plan will be in action very soon.

The village panchayats in India will be connected to broadband access by 2012 and it will reach the entire villages having the population more than five hundred by 2013. Kathuria the professor of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) states that a big connection is there between the Gross Domestic Product GDP the economic status and the broadband connections .For every 10% increase in broadband connection will increase the economic status of our country will probably increase by 1.1%.  Now a day this is low because of the lack of broadband connections.

And finally he states that the development of the telecom will can help the development of all other infrastructures. We can’t grow unless and until we use the ingredients we are having for our growth.  We are putting our efforts to put fiber optic cable in the village areas for the usage of 3G technologies in villages.  Soon we will regulate and take the steps for the growth of internet broadband access in villages.  If these plans worked out then our mother nation will attain a great development.

Google said that, “An open Internet is good for Indian consumers and businesses. To unlock the full potential of a national broadband network and the Internet access it will deliver, it is crucial to implement policies that maintain the Internet’s fundamentally open, neutral, non-discriminatory nature”
In countries like USA net neutrality is becoming a major problem and service providers promote content of higher revenue and block other contents provided by rival operators. Customers are highly affected by the rivalries between the different service providers. Internet has been remained neutral as it neither owned by neither government nor corporate. But off late, telecom companies want to earn more profits as that of content providers and so they started restrictions on the services provided by them to customers.
In its petition to TRAI Google has said, “Keeping the Internet open is about more than Google; it’s about the next Google – and making sure that the Internet remains an open ecosystem, where new ideas can succeed, and new business models can flourish on their own merits. Indeed, Google’s story is the story of myriad other companies that have become global brands in a matter of years or even months. Skype went from an Estonian start-up to being a major competitor in international calling. Facebook went from being a small college project to being a platform used by millions”

It also added that, “In designing the regulatory environment for a National Broadband Network, TRAI should consider the ways in which broadband providers’ practices can threaten the fundamental openness of the Internet. Consideration should be given to promoting a regulatory environment that protects user choice, competition and innovation on the Internet”.

Guy Parker Chief executive of Advertising standards Authority (ASA) said that, “The ASA is committed to ensuring that broadband ads are legal, decent, honest and truthful. Technology is developing quickly, which is why we recently asked the bodies responsible for writing the advertising codes to look at broadband advertising speed claims as part of a wider review of the sector. Ads can’t, of course, contain all there is to know about a service but that doesn’t justify headline speed claims that mislead”.

Berkett wants to crack down Ofcom’s marketing claims and wants the government to make the broadband rules stricter. He also added that, “We have been arguing for over a year that DSL operators talking about ‘up to’ 20Mb is grossly misleading; I won’t say lying, but damn close,” he said. You can’t talk about ‘up to’ 20Mb when the majority of customers are getting an average of 6Mb”

Virgin’s media’s 10 mb plans run at 9 on average and previously it was 8.7mb. Its 20mb and 50mb run at 90% of their advertised speed.

The government has also welcomed the plans by Eircomm, Eamon Ryan minister for telecommunication said that, “I very much welcome this announcement by Eircom, the latest in a line of significant developments in Ireland’s broadband story.My department’s National Broadband Scheme has cracked the availability issue and will deliver broadband to every area of Ireland this autumn – three years ahead of the EU target of 2013 and 10 years ahead of the USA’s target of 2020.”

He also added that, “The speed and quality of broadband has been firmly in my sights since I published my NGB policy paper last year. My policy, based on facilitating competition and providing investment certainty is now beginning to bear fruit, as far as speeds are concerned. Eircom’s announcement today is one of the most important developments in recent years and will result in huge bandwidth being provided to the trialled homes and businesses. This development, along with the rollout of 100Mbps capability by the cable operator, demonstrates the market’s appetite to respond to the demands for bigger bandwidth,”

In the recent years the number of broadband users has rapidly increased at the same time there is also a rapid increase in the mobile data users. The more percentage mobile traffic is due to the increased number of users accessing social networking sites on the mobile devices.

As of now there are more than 1 million Facebook users and Ericson will enable them to connect anywhere at any time all over the world. By the end of 2009, Lebanon’s mobile penetration reached 60% which was higher than that of the last year. It has been predicted that there will be a rapid growth of mobile connectivity by 2010 due to large expat community who regularly visit Lebanon.

The mobile broadband will cause a giant leap in the coming years, IP based technologies and network modernization in turn lead to scalable efficiency gains in other sectors

Decrease in rates, increased affordability, wider range and better access has helped to soar up the internet business. While coming to online activities social networking and blogging ranks first, second comes the email, the usage of email has lowered to due to social networking, but still seven perecent of them use internet regularly.

For the past three years social networking accounted for just nine percent, but it has reached an enormous growth of three hundred and forty percent. Three percent of online users use it regularly for reading the news.

But based upon the report by analysts, unless rival telecom firms rent usage of the infrastructure it would be difficult for BT to make return on the investment. There was a large cut in the employers that is nearly five thousands and this was largely on the temporary workers. Moreover there was a £9 billion hole in the company’s pension fund.
At the same time the company will return a profit of £1.1 billion which incurred a loss of £1.6 billion last year.BT global services has overestimated the income, reportedly including the deals with NHS and Thomson Reuters. Also BT has focused on increasing the profit at global service division, reported the Sunday Telegraph.

Brian Hall will now be the new financial officer of Chorus in an acting capacity. Telecom Chief executive Paul Reynolds said that, “A number of our people from across the Telecom group have been seconded in recent months to work through all aspects of the ultra fast broadband project, and the size and scope of this team requires the very senior leadership and acumen that Mark Ratcliffe can bring to it.”

Chorus has planned to press ahead to provide broadband through fiber optics throughout the nation.

In the mid of 2010 the commission will meet up in Geneva and deliver its finding to the UN secretary general in September. It is planned to submit it before the UN summit that is going to be held in New York so as to review the goals of the Millennium development.

The primary goal of this is to provide universal broadband connectivity to all citizens and sectors. Moreover its aim is to deliver the broadband infrastructure and to bring the digital development as a platform for the progression of every nation.

The inconsistent broadband coverage led the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission to call for a public hearing in the fall to investigate whether a new regulatory framework should be put in place to ensure universal access to affordable broadband service
Lack of proper broadband connectivity can cripple growth of business. Many companies suffer and cannot plug in for the information access and data storage as a result of poor connectivity.