Cellular Operators Association Of India (COAI)

COAI Mission Statement

To Help , Establish and Sustain World Class Cellular Infrastructure and Deliver the Benefits of an Affordable Mobile Communication Service to the people of India.

Vission of COAI
To facilitate the establishment of a world class cellular infrastructure and deliver the benefits of affordable mobile telephony services to the people of India.

Role of COAI
COAI has emerged as the official voice for the Indian GSM Industry and interacts directly with Ministries, Policy Makers, Regulators, Financial Institutions and Technical Bodies. It provides a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas between these bodies and Service Providers, who share a common interest in the development of cellular mobile telephony. COAI also collaborates with other Industry Associations such as CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM, AUSPI, ISPAI, VSAT association. COAI also interacts with various international organizations such as ITU, GSMA, UMTS, WWRF and 3GPP etc. as well as the Press & Media to ensure that the issues in cellular industry are discussed, understood and debated on a wider platform.

Core Members
1. Aircel Ltd. 2. Bharti Airtel Ltd. 3. Idea Cellular Limited 4. Unitech Wireless Pvt. Ltd.

5. Videocon Telecommunications Ltd.

6. Vodafone India Limited

COAI Associate Members

1.Alcatel Lucent India Limited 2. Ascend Telecom Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. 3. CISCO Systems India Pvt. Ltd.

4. Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd. 5. GTL Infrastructure Ltd. 6. Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. 7. IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

COAI Associate Members

8. Intel Corporation 9. Nokia Siemens Networks India Pvt. Ltd.

10. Polaris Wireless Inc.

11. Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. 12. Sony India Mobile

13. ZTE India Pvt. Ltd.

Objectives of COAI:
To improve standards and competitiveness in the

Cellular Industry and attain the status of world class infrastructure. To study the best practices & research of the industry as well as to analyse the Cellular Experience worldwide. To improve standards and quality of services in consultation with GSM India.

Objectives of COAI:
To maintain and upgrade services in terms of speech

transmission, access, coverage, security etc, to enable expansion of cellular services. To help address problems of cellular operators relating to operational, regulatory, financial, or licensing through interaction with the upper bodies. To undertake continuous efforts for customer satisfaction. To help achieve the national objectives of increased tele-density and improved Rural Access.

Special projects of COAI:

Mobile Instant Messaging:

Instant Messaging (IM) can be broadly defined as "an Internet protocol (IP)-based application that provides communication between users that are simultaneously online". Instant Messaging is a means of text communication between person to person (or multiperson) / members of a predefined group. It is characterized by various features, like interactive nature of text dialogue box and presence, which allows users to see whether other members on their contact list are online and available (or not) to engage in communication.

Project MOST (Mobile Operators Shared Towers)

COAI has played an active role in promoting

infrastructure sharing in India. To provide better coverage and quality to the subscribers. To avoid undue proliferation of towers by leveraging the benefits of technological innovations to improve the city skyline. To make Cellular Mobile Communications more affordable for the subscribers by reducing the costs for Service Providers.

Subscriber Verification
The Indian GSM Operators are making all out efforts

to meet Government objectives of increasing teledensity through aggressive growth and expansion of services.
Project Key role - Subscriber awareness & process of

subscriber verification.
COAI also carried out some independent audits.

Emf Health & Safety

It is most important to note that the RF radiations emitted

by Mobile Communication Systems lie in the non-ionizing part of the electromagnetic spectrum and thus do not have enough energy to cause any genetic damage.
It is relevant to mention that for several decades extensive

RF research has been undertaken by researchers of the highest integrity at organizations like World Health Organization, British Medical Association, these studies does not demonstrate any substantive link between human health risks and the use of digital mobile phones.

Thank You
Presented by :
~Krishnan Iyer ~Kushal Kharche ~Priyanka Banubakode