Career in Telecom
What all these Value Added Services are?
Today many people are not using the cell phones for just communicating, much new utilization are coming. For example Ring tones, Caller Tone, etc. When ever we want information regarding railways, cinemas, cricket scores, news etc, these services will be provided by many of the operators which will be charged when ever we utilize them. These are only the Value Added Services. Previously in the show of Kaun Banega Crorepathi around 3crores SMS were sent in 3 months.
These are the Services:
To attract the people many organizations are grabbing the entertainment tricks. They are doing the crores of business by providing the ring tones, sports, wallpapers, SMS contests by exposing the Prizes to the users. GPRS, 3G, MobiTV, and M-Commerce these all they are providing. The types of services the present organizations are offering are:
P2P: This enables the Person to Person short message servicing facility.
P2A: This is services for the people who are participating the competitions. Generally there will be a machine capturing all our SMS. This service is called Person to Application.
Ring tones: In this services like ring tones, caller tunes, background music, are provided by the operators which will be deducted from the bill excluding the rental. This process will be done automatically by the system they already developed.
Sports: We can download the games, which will be charged based on the type of game, size, etc.
Data: The data can be getting from internet through the GPRS facility.
Who can bring the career in this field?
For this Value Added Services many professionals are required in coming days. The people having the computer background, having knowledge in C, C++ also should have an exposure to IT. Persons having grip in Java, .net, VB are having many opportunities. These people should always plan to provide the services based on the increase in the utilization. One has to improve the present services.
As many people are good at academic, the people who innovatively think will have a bright future in this career, because one has to develop the new services based on the market conditions and attract the people to use those services.
In this field the salary is not a case, as there will be a salary to the right person very attractively. Based on the experience many operators pay around 5 lakhs to 10 lakhs also per annum.