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VOICE&DATA estimates that TCS' revenue from its telecom business to be around Rs 1,213 crore in FY 2003–04. In 2002–03, its revenues from its telecom business was around Rs 900 crore. That is around 35 percent growth. TCS, India's number one software exporter and one of the top 10 software and IT services companies of the world, has a significant telecom business from clients in both the service provider and telecom equipment vendors segments.

TCS' offerings span the entire gamut of the telecom spectrum, with proprietary tools and methodologies, coupled with onsite and offshore delivery mechanisms that provide complete solutions. The telecom industry practice is the second-largest vertical practice of TCS, contributing 20 percent of total revenues. With a dedicated pool of more than 4,000 professionals, and an accumulated experience of 20,000 person years, and ongoing associations with global telecom service providers and equipment manufacturers, TCS has acquired unparalleled understanding of the telecom domain.

CEO: S Ramadorai Area of Operation: Telecom Software Address: Air India Building, 11th Floor, Nariman Point, Mumbai - 400 021 Phone: 022-56689999 Fax: 022-56689333/022-56689455 Website: www.tcs.com V&D estimates CyberMedia Research Revenues from telecom related work Highlights Telecom industry practice is the second-largest vertical practice of TCS, contributing 20 percent of total revenues TCS clients from the service provider milieu include AOL, British Telecom, FarEasTone (Taiwan), NCIC (Taiwan), NTT (Japan) OmanTel (Oman), Optus (Australia), Qwest (USA), SBC (USA), SingTel, South West Bell, Swisscom, TeleDenmark, Telekom Malaysia and Telstra. Among its leading equipment-vendor clients are Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Lucent, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, and Nortel TCS joined the Symbian Platinum program to support the growing market for smart phones based on Symbian OS

TCS has been successfully providing quality services to several of the world's largest telecom companies including both the service provider and the telecom equipment manufacturer segment. Among service providers, its clients include America Online, British Telecom, FarEasTone (Taiwan) NCIC (Taiwan), NTT (Japan) OmanTel (Oman), Optus (Australia), Qwest (USA), SBC (USA), SingTel, South West Bell, Swisscom, TeleDenmark, Telekom Malaysia and Telstra among others. Among its leading equipment vendor clients are Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Lucent, Motorola, NEC, Nokia and Nortel.

In its endeavor to provide cutting edge services, TCS is constantly investing heavily in research centers. TCS is designing its own VLSI chipsets based on the standards. VLSI chipsets are famous for their small size, low power consumption, and short design turnaround times.

With a number of new facilities across the globe to cater to its customers spread across geographies, a new office in Amsterdam has allowed TCS to consolidate its operations across Benelux, focus on its European operations, and continue to service its client base across Europe. It also started its operation in Uruguay for the support of CMM or the Capable Mature Model.

TCS recently inaugurated its largest global development center (GDC) at Hyderabad. With investments up to Rs 150 crore, the 2200-seater GDC will be a center of excellence for domains like telecom, government (both central and state), and shipping and ports, and deploy leading edge technologies including .Net, Opensource, billing, e-governance, and bio-informatics.

In another initiative to build upon their mobile strategy, TCS joined the Symbian Platinum program to support the growing market for smart phones based on Symbian OS. Through this partnership TCS will extend its mobile computing-based services, solutions and offerings to the Symbian OS ecosystem. Symbian OS licensees account for over 85 percent of worldwide mobile phone sales and in 2003, more than 6.67 million phones based on Symbian OS were shipped worldwide. This association will enable them to offer leading edge services to mobile service providers and device manufacturers and further expand their telecom sector offering and strengthen relationships with enterprise end-users, application developers, smart phone manufacturers and network operators. TCS' offerings include Symbian OS embedded software development, consulting, systems integration, re-engineering and testing services for a number of customer segments.