T&M contribution through Services in Offset and Call Drop nuisance!

A very positive move has been spearheaded by the Defense Minister by announcing the Services and Skills inclusion in the mandatory 30 percent part to be locally generated,as part of Procurement contracts now onwards.The minister is very pragmatic in the sense that the content of offset can't be summarily discussed as a ploy to window dress for any illegal,or unethical practice.Offset can and should include lot of incremental business to the local Indian companies,where the efficient and effective use of overseas hardware can happen through these services.

The local content of software,engineering services,third party hardware of jigs,fixtures and training on technology delivered through local Personnels can be very useful for the upkeep and serviceability
of Defence Systems.Incidentally this will have to necessarily include lot of T&M hardware,Services,skills of high technology and project management.This can all accrue to small scale,technopreneur driven local T&M companies.Most of them are highly accomplished people in their field and they can contribute immensely to the overall mission of "Make in India" objectives.
The Govt and Industry should do close collaboration and help Indigenisation in this program.

I am a little disappointed to see there is still lack of industry commitment on solving the call drop issue.The Government is wanting operators to improve infrastructure and use of better processes through available spectrum sharing and trading etc.But a vital and critical aspect is totally ignored
and that part is taking the help of Professional T&M service companies and solving through QoS
angle.Lets all remember the good quality telecom infrastructure includes the appropriate T&M equipment,services and automation.That will ensure proper pro-active quality gaps and how to resolve by better network roll outs.A side advantage will be increased revenues to the test industry,and it's critical role in resolving this nagging issue!

2016 will be Indias disruption technology year and augurs well for T&M

The year2016 in India will see several technology disruptions the way it is deployed in services,make in India programs,smart cities development,Hitech manufacturing and public delivery of services.It will also see India take some heavy investments coming to fruition as far as Strategic key infrastructure projects undertaken since the new Government at the center came into being in Mid
2014.Hopefully and more confidently,the initiatives and investments will result in better productive
numbers for GDP growth too.As more and more public initiatives and policy narratives yield results,the background contribution of T&M technologies will be appreciated,and there will be encouragement to use More T&M tools and systems in latter half of run up to 2021.

Major 2016 visibility remains for manufacturing Smartphones,Smart Cities development,4G deployment throughout India,Digital India driving public services and exploitation of Aadhar based data services for general common man.Railways will see rollout of 400 stations on Wifi network and bigger players taking lead in 4G across India.One million mobile users with sizable smartphone percentage will be another catalyst to new age eServices through the Smart Networks.Likewise the
Startup culture in our major IT centers will see growth as well as shakeout,and so IoT Cloud etc will
be subjected to newer stress testing and test automation.Networks will be created throughout 2016 for
health,education and Auto connectivity and effective Rail communication.

Also India will be more than halfway to have a GPS system of its own,and seven satellites required for the project completion will be through in 2016.Shared services like taxi sharing and other social
Apps based things will be commonplace here.This will give encouragement to small entrepreneurs and also trigger need to do LAN and WAN optimization and testing.Most of the Smartphone will be
carrying useful apps,so the network upkeep and regulations conformity will be needed.

This is expected to be the year of disruptive technologies and rollout of networks in Education,Health,Communication,Defense and Space sectors and which will further need new tools and T&M technologies as the background support.Hopefully we will also see better figures for T&M tools and platforms in the business stat also.Happy tech year 2016.....