The Hindu Business Line : India has only 3 pc of Japan's outsourced market share

India has only a three per cent market share of Japan's outsourced IT market, according to Mr M. Madhavan Nambiar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India.

Speaking at a session on enhancing cooperation between India, Japan, the Asia-Pacific region and Taiwan at the Confederation of Indian Industry's Connect 2006, he said that initiatives such as the Japan-India ICT forum held in Delhi in August 2005 last year should provide the right type of forum to improve trade relations between the two countries.

Mr Inada Shuichi, Vice President - Planning and Member of the Board, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, said that the Japan-India ICT forum held in Delhi resulted in six working groups in the areas of broadband, mobile, research and development, e-governance, information security and network server applications.

He said that the two countries should get to know the competency of each other. He spoke about Japanese competency in telecom - penetration is about 80 per cent in Japan, he said, while about 87 per cent of this base has access to the Internet through the mobile device. He also spoke about the broadband expertise - he said that broadband services in Japan are the cheapest in the world, while maintaining global standards of connectivity and speed.

Mr T.V. Ramachandran, Director General, Cellular Operators Association of India, agreed that a solid broadband structure is the backbone of services like e-governance. He added that 3G services - launched in Japan in 2001 — offers mobile broadband, which would not only improve connectivity but would result in even stronger growth in the mobile market in India, which currently adds more than five million customers every month.

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