IT Outsourcing for Indian Telecom Sector

Outsourcing help business to reduce costs so as to accelerate time to market. Business through outsourcing take advantage of external expertise, assets and/or intellectual property. Outsourcing is not a novel concept for business but outsourcing the information technology in current business scenario is central to the operation of the business. So the decision to outsource information technology processes implies a much heavier reliance on the quality of the service provided by the outsourcer. Indian Telecom is high technology industry and needs the expertise of both telecom and computing fields to offer good quality service to customers. Thus Outsourcing IT of telecom players is more prominent in upcoming outsourcing contracts. This paper is an attempt to review the drivers and scope of IT outsourcing in Indian Telecom with recent examples. This paper explores the future prospects of IT outsourcing in Indian telecom by understanding its current status in leading telecom players.