ECI Remains India’s Big Equipment Vendor

ECI Telecom, provider of networking infrastructure solutions, has announced that Voice & Data, India’s leading telecom magazine, ranked ECI Telecom as the #1 transmission equipment vendor in India for the third consecutive year.

The company maintained its leadership with 30% market share, significantly ahead of other competitors.

India’s domestic telecommunications segment is one of the fastest growing markets in the world, driven in large by the exponential growth rate of the country’s cellular sector.

In 2005 there were 100 million phones in India, two years later that had grown to 218 million.

Seven months later that had exploded to 290 million.

There are 72 million new cell phone users each year, so it is not surprising that ECI would be happy with their Indian position.

According to the Voice & Data survey, the Indian telecommunications industry grew by 24% from $18 billion in 2006-07 to $22.3 billion in 2007-08.

The transmission equipment market increased by 53% to record $452 million in revenues, propelled primarily from the network infrastructure expansions required to support increased cellular voice traffic.

These figures may prove to be the tip of the potential iceberg as the Indian government has also today announced plans to auction off 3G telecom services and broadband wireless access rights that would launch advanced high speed services to India’s one billion tech hungry masses.

India also experienced high growth in the broadband access market, with 68% year-over-year growth.

As an end-to-end network equipment provider, ECI is well-positioned to leverage its leadership in the transmission market to compete in this sector as well.

ECI’s 1Net business framework, as announced in March 2008, can help service providers with the inevitable transition to next-generation networks and services, through fibre to the home/building technologies, carrier ethernet and managed services.

About ECI Telecom
ECI Telecom Ltd. delivers communications platforms to carriers and service providers worldwide.

ECI provides efficient platforms and solutions that enable customers to rapidly deploy cost-effective, revenue-generating services.

Founded in 1961, Israel-based, ECI provides scalable broadband access, transport and data networking infrastructure which in turn, provides the foundation for next-generation voice, IPTV, mobility and other business solutions.