Change is the way of life and V&D 100 has changed to suit the requirements of the industry. We have divided the issue in two parts—equipment and services. Equipment focuses on all kinds of equipment, be it carrier or enterprise, while services focus on all NTP ’99 classification of services. For the first time in V&D 100, we have moved away from company-specific approach to a segment-specific approach, which was a long pending demand from our readers. We have covered around 32 segments, of which 25 were from equipment and seven from services. (No other magazine in the telecom world covers such diverse segments.) Segments like network security, NMS, WLAN, VoIP switch, and broadband wireless radio have also been covered. Some segments like paging and telecom training, have been left out.

This year we have also been able to rank multinationals for the first time, a difficult task considering the fact that there is a lack of transparency and companies are very secretive of revealing data. And a majority of companies are not planning to share data in any form. It seems this issue will get addressed only when a majority of companies get listed at the bourses.