Change is a way of life and this year also we have changed a bit. The mobile services segment constitutes both GSM services as well as CDMA (mobile) services unlike last year where cellular services included only GSM. This was done only because the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) introduced unified access service license regime from November 2003
onwards for both basic and cellular services. Basic services have been named as fixed access service and include fixed line as well as fixed wireless terminals (FWT).

All this has been done so as to move with the telecom industry and avoid any mismatch between what we report and what the industry says.

V&D 100, the survey of Indian communications Industry is made up of two parts. Part I focuses on equipment and includes both carrier as well as enterprise equipment, while Part II focuses on services. In terms of segment analysis, Part I covers 22 segments whereas Part II has 7 segments. So, in total we have covered about 29 segments.

The V&D 100 survey was based on a questionnaire sent to all the companies associated with the communications industry. Simultaneously, the V&D 100 team had one-to-one discussions with senior executives to get an insight about companies as well as the trends prevailing across the industry. The data was collated and analysed before putting it in the V&D 100.