The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) organized the mobile innovation conference at Mumbai on August 8, 2012. The conference intended to take a look at the top future trends that might shape the mobile industry in India. Notes from some of the sessions at the conference: - On mobile internet: Neeraj Roy, Managing director and Chief Executive Officer, Hungama Digital Media, said that the Indian telecom market will make a shift from 2G to 4G bypassing 3G altogether. He said that currently, 40 percent mobiles in the market were internet capable, but not necessarily activated. - Himanshu Kapania, Manahing Director, Idea Cellular and Chairman COAI, in his talk on 'Service beyond voice and SMS' suggested that the telecom business will grow to Rs 200,000 crore in next 4 years. He said that currently, around Rs 20,000 crore worth business in telecom industry, comes from non-voice services. To experience growth in revenues, users need to be made aware of benefits of accessing internet on mobile, and for that, telecom operators need to provide better quality network, he said. As for Idea cellular, he informed that 39% users on the network use SMS and that it was similar for other operators as well. Contradicting Neeraj Roy's comments, Himanshu Kapania suggested that India was not going to jump from 2G to 4G. "India will take normal transition from 2G to 3G to 4G." He also suggested that to know how India was progressing in the market, they should just follow the market…
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