Overturning decades of monopoly, India's international long-distance (ILD) market opens to private competition in April 2002. This landmark development pose both an opportunity and a challenge to prospective entrants, their equipment suppliers and financers.

Keen competition is emerging, against the backdrop of plummeting bandwidth prices, falling tariffs for voice and data transfer, and stresses and strains in the international inter-carrier settlement system. And in the longer-term VoIP may affect the market, both in terms of price and service variety.

This report analyses the impact on India's international long-distance market and industry of the new competition, new technology, and plunging bandwidth prices. It basically covers :

• the changing regulatory framework and tariffs
• past, present and future growth of the market for voice, data, value-added services and bandwidth
• the new economics of the industry
• the competitive environment and competition
• profiles and strategies of the major players

The emphasis throughout is on understanding the market and competitive dynamics, uncovering business opportunities, and developing insights to help companies develop appropriate business strategies.

The report is not based on primary survey data, but comprehensively covers the secondary information and data available, including information not easily available. The report's information base is regularly updated.

The report is divided into the following sections :

• the current and emerging regulatory framework and its impact on the private sector
• size and characteristics of the ILD business
• international long distance traffic growth, and route-wise characteristics
  • size and growth of international voice traffic, incoming vs outgoung voice traffic
  • geographical pattern of voice traffic, route-wise incoming/outgoing traffic
• market demand estimates
  • projections for the ILD voice market
  • impact of Internet telephony
• Revenue aspects
  • how ILD revenues have been apportioned
  • falling tariffs and settlement rates
  • future trends in tariffs and settlement rates
  • revenue sharing
  • Future revenue for an ILD operator from voice calls
• Non-voice market and revenue growth
  • Growing importance of data in the ILD market
  • Sources of demand for data and value-added services
  • Internet and leased line services
  • Future growth of demand for Internet and leased lines
  • Impact of broadband, multimedia and e-commerce
  • Demand for international data networks and managed data services
  • Newer international data-voice services
  • Demand for TV uplinking and mobile services
  • Fiber trunking for TV channels
  • Non-voice revenue growth
• ILD economics
  • Growth in bandwidth requirements for voice and non-voice traffic
  • New ILD operator cost-revenue structure
  • Cost framework for a toll-grade operator
  • Cost differential for a non-toll operator
  • Scale economies
  • Bandwidth economies
  • Revenue diversification and value added services
• competitive environment in ILD
  • ILD wholesale and retail markets
  • Move to competition in international bandwidth
  • Players in the international bandwidth market
  • Submarine cable operators
  • Satellite communication operators
  • Impact on competition in bandwidth market
  • Competition in the ILD market
  • player groupings
  • Non-toll grade services
  • global carriers
  • Voice hubs
  • Cross-traffic opportunity
  • Revenue raising and revenue sharing strategies
  • callback operators and resellers
  • Foreign partnerships
  • The uplinking opportunity
• Profiles and strategies of major companies

The report is priced at $175. It will be e-mailed, in Microsoft Word or html format. For hard copies an additional $40 is charged. Note that if the domestic long-distance report is purchased also, the integrated report costs $250.

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