Telecom Quiz 1. What is the Full Form of 'WAP' in Telecom Industry?

Wireless Application Protocol

2. The telecom giant NOKIA belongs to which nation? Finland

3. This brand has undergone three name changes. Its first two names were Maxtouch and Orange. What were the next two? Hutch, Vodaphone. 4. This company started in 1995 as a joint venture between the Tatas, the Aditya Birla Group and AT&T, by merging Tata Cellular and Birla AT&T Communications. Which? Idea. 5. What is the full form of GSM? Global Satellite mobile communication 6. What is the full form of CDMA? Code Division Multiple Access 7. What is the main difference between CDMA & GSM? CDMA sends wireless signals in a series of unique codes, while GSM divides signals into a series of individual time slots. CDMA networks have more capacity than GSM, so more callers can use the network at a time. GSM can switch easily to 3G, uses less battery power, and uses SIM cards so users can switch mobiles easily. 8. Which is the worlds fastest growing industry? The Indian telecommunication industry with 826.93 million mobile phone subscribers as of April 2011. 10. Which country has the largest telecommunication industry? China India is the second largest telecommunication network in the world in terms of number of wireless connections after China. 11. Which was the first telecom company in India?

In 1881, a licence was granted to the Oriental Telephone Company Limited of England for opening telephone exchanges at Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and Ahmedabad and the first formal telephone service was established in the country. 12. Which was the first corporation after Independence to establish and run telecom services? DoT was responsible for telecom services in entire country until 1985 when Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) was carved out of DoT to run the telecom services of Delhi and Mumbai. 13. What do you understand by Teledensity, and how is it computed? It is the coverage of telephone services (both landline and mobile) and it is computed as a percentage of the total population of a country. 14. What are companies which provide internet facility to customers called? Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 15. What does the term MNP stand for? Mobile Telephone Portability it provides users the facility to change their service provider while retaining their original mobile number. 16. What is the name of the controlling body in India for the telecom sector? TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) 17. The worlds largest mobile service provider is China Mobile with 600 million subscribers 18. Indias largest mobile service provider is Airtel with 208 million subscribers 19. Which are the 2 biggest, recent M&A deals in the Indian Telecom sector? Reliance Communication which merged its telecom tower business with GTL infrastructure Ltd for USD 11 billion. Bharti Airtel acquired Kuwait based Zain telecoms African business for USD 10.7 billion. 20. Name the CEOs: A. Bharti Airtel India Ltd. A. Sanjay Kapoor B. Idea Cellular C. Vodaphone Essar C. Marten Pieters

B. Himanshu Kapania