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Research

Short term projects (0-2 years)

  • Mobile Number Portability
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems - Roads
  • Telecom Equipment Manufacturing
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems - Rail
  • Renovau Case Study
  • Mobile Content Ecosystem 
  • Study of Telecom industry in India and understand how the recent trends are driving Mergers, Acquisitions and Partnerships in this industry
  • Telecom Sector: Outsourcing Network Operations - the Future 
  • Analysis of Rural Telecommunication In India
  • M&A Trends in the Indian Telecom Sector 
  • Mobile Value Added Service in India
  • Participation of Indian Organizations in Wireless Standards Development 

Research Papers 

  • Increasing Rural Tele Density - Search for a Viable Model
    • Paper presented at International Telecommunication Society 2008,Montreal, Canada 
  • Working Paper: Assessing the Changing Employment Profiles in the Telecom Sector: Implications for Education and Training
    • Working Paper No.: 2008-08-02 
  • Social and Economic Impact of Mobiles 
    • Vodafone Report, 2009 
  • Role of Universal Service Obligation Fund in Rural Telecom Services: Lessons from the Indian Experience 
    • Working Paper No.: 2009-06-03 
  • Mobiles and New Business Models: Barriers to Innovation 

Projects by Faculty 

  • A Survey of the Impact of Mobile Use in Poor Urban Areas
    • (Prof. Ankur Sarin, Prof. Rekha  Jain, ICRIER, with an international team ) 
  • Assessing Community Participation in the Design and Implementation of e-Government Initiatives 
    • (Prof. Rekha Jain with David Souter (University of Strathclyde and LSE and Panos, London)) 
  • Incentives for participation in Ad-hoc Peer-to-Peer Mobile-Phone Mesh Networks
    • (Dr. Kavitha Ranganathan) 
  • Common Services Centre Scheme (Pragya Kendra) – Jharkhand: Initiation, Development and Challenges
    • (Prof. Rajanish Dass) 
  • Identifying Institutional Mechanisms for Telecom Start-ups in India
    • (Prof. Rekha Jain, Prof. Rajanish Dass, and Prof. Sushil Vachani)
  • CSF Incubation Study
    • (Prof. Rekha Jain, Prof. Rajanish Dass and Prof Sushil Vachani)
  • Impact of USO policy for Tower Creation & Sharing
    • (Dr. Rohit Prasad)

Workshops

  • "Current Trends in the Telecom Sector in India: Research and Work Agenda for TCOE” was organized by IIMA-IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence (IITCOE) at IIM Ahmedabad
  • “Information in the Digital Age: Security, Identity and Management”, India-SIM 2009 workshop
  • India IT 2020

Invited Talk/ Seminars Organized 

  • Joint research project on Digital Identity Management
  • Internet Governance: Issues and Challenges
  • ICTs and the Internet Economy: Issues and Challenges

Conference

Talk on "How India can become a Leader in Wireless Communications: Role of Policy Maker/ Regulator/ Government"

 

Case Studies

  • Vodafone’s Pursuit of Hutch-Essar, along with teaching note
  • VSNL (A) along with teaching note
  • Idea
  • Oxigen
  • A Little World

Courses

  • Infrastructure Development and Financing
  • Managing Telecom Enterprises 
  • Legal and Regulatory Issues in Infrastructure
  • Communication Policy Research