The Hindu Business Line : TCS may recruit 1,500 telecom consultants

Of this, 500-600 consultants would be for telecom services alone, the company's Executive Vice-President, Mr S. Mahalingam, told newspersons here today.

The company has centres in Chennai at Tidel Park, Sholinganallur and Ambattur in the city outskirts. In January this year, the company made Chennai as its telecom services hub.

According to Mr Mahalingam, out of the total 20,000 employees, the company has about 5,000 consultants in Chennai alone. The company has over 3,000 consultants working on telecom services.

During the current year, TCS plans to invest about Rs 5 crore on the operations support systems (OSS) Lab at the Tidel Park, company officials said.

The OSS solutions are typically an integrated mix of products from various vendors. TCS' alliance partners whose products have been deployed in the OSS Lab include Siebel, Oracle, IBM, Kenan, Portal and HP.

According to Mr Mahalingam, out of the total revenue, telecom services contributed about 20 per cent last year. This year, despite the bad market conditions, revenue from telecom services would be 20-25 per cent, he said. In 2000-01, the company reported a turnover of about $680 million, and the same was expected to be over $1 billion in 2001-02 fiscal. About 90 per cent of these revenues originate from foreign sources primarily North America and Europe.

Mr Ravi Viswanathan, Head, Telecom Services, TCS, said that the company in association with Trivnet, Israel, had developed a micro-payment billing solutions prototype for a client in Europe. The company saw a large potential in micro and macro payment billing solutions, he added.

On telecom services, Mr Viswanathan said, about 60 per cent of the revenue came from service providers such as Qwest (the company provides 3-5 per cent of TCS revenue) and British Telecom, while 40 per cent came from telecom equipment vendors such as Ericsson.

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