« Covad 3Q07 VoIP Update | Main | Alcatel-Lucent 3Q07 NGN and IPTV Update »

In search for India’s Cisco: ITI

The search continues. Here is the ITI profile. ITI had revenues of Rs. 18.2 billion (approx US$455 million) for the fiscal year 2006-07. Net loss amounted to Rs. 4 billion (approx US$100 million) for the period. Below are some more details.

• The last time ITI was profitable was in fiscal 2001-02. Since then it has incurred a loss every year.

• Out of the $455 million revenue for 2006-07, BSNL the incumbent accounted for about 84%

• The main revenue driver for ITI is wireless. Here are the percentage contributions out of the overall revenue: GSM infrastructure 24%, GSM BTS 11%, WLL 19%.

• NGN deployments generated around $13.25 million in revenues during the fiscal

• ITI has partnerships with Tejas for SDH equipment and with Tekelec for signaling equipment

• Number of employees as of 31 March 07: 13,415

• On a cumulative basis, in India, ITI has deployed 39 million switching lines (which represents market share 45%), sold 26 million fixed phones (market share 64%), and 1.3 million mobile phones (market share 0.8%).

• ITI is the most eligible candidate for ‘Cisco of India’

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.ilocus.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-t.cgi/262