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Father Of Indian Telecom

Revolution

Sam Pitroda

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Early Life Sam Pitroda was born in a large

family of seven brothers andsisters in Titlagarh,Orissa on 4thMay 1942.

His father though not highlyeducated but believed ineducating his children.

He did masters in Physics andElectronics from Baroda.

Ironically this father of Indian

Telecom Revolution first usedtelephone only after moving to theUnited States Of America to studyElectrical Engineering.

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CAREER

Pitroda has an opportunity towork on Digital Switchingtechnology at GTE inc.,ChicagoUSA.

After working in GTE for 10years he started a telephoneexchange company calledWescom Switching in 1974.

Later he sold Wescom Switchingto Rockwell for 10 million

dollars.

In 1984,Sam Pitroda visited SaudiAmerican Bank in Jeddah andintroduced himself as a venturecapitalist.

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PITRODA IN INDIA!!!

His opportunities came to transform his dreams into reality, when the

then Indian prime minister Mr. Rajiv Gandhi made him his chiefscientific adviser and requested him to start a new public venture calledCenter For The Devolopment of Telematics (C-Dot).

It started exporting telephonic equipment in bulk to countries such asVietnam, Bangladesh, Nepal, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Uganda.

It sold its design license to about 20 different Indian equipment

manufacturers.

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DEVELOPMENT IN

TELECOM SECTOR He successfully embarked upon the creation and launch of Rural

Automatic Telephone exchanges (RAX) designed and manufactures

by him and his team of Indian engineers.

As a result, about 40,000 exchanges totaling about 20 milliontelephone lines were installed in India.

All these exchanges were equipped with SS7 Intelligent Networking

Signaling Systems-the systems which are used to find out if a

number is busy or available and to check up the database of

telephone numbers.

Sam Pitroda became the chairman of National Technology Mission

during Rajiv Gandhis government and thus the first chairman of

Indias Telecom Commission.

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PCOS

Pitroda said that we must work towards centpercent literacy, ten million new jobs per year, andensuring that the economyat ten percent a year.

Pitrodas tenacity helped createthe concept and technology

behind the network of STD/PCO.

Towards this need,during the20th century,600,000 boothswere established all over India.

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He designed a simple device which displays phone

numbers,call costs and duration of the call and generates

an instant bill at the users end.

Lets tap the developments

in information technology

and expedite the process of

nation-building using these

tools,was the call ofSam Pitroda.

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India has huge resource base computer professionals .

IT solutions can help us tackle problems in core areas of

governance, health, education etc..

IT can be used to simplyfy life and enable people to getthings done with less hassles.

Pitroda said that our national agenda must reflect the

multiple dreams and cultural diversity of India and every

citizen must work towards this common agenda.

We must encourage innovation and encourage people to

think differently and give wild ideas a hearing", said

Pitroda.

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ICCS

With ICC, the access to computers will be

available for public use, which will pave way for

governance. Indians are highly talented in mathematics, and

we have a large pool of software talent.

In his words We do not need experts to tell us

what the problems are . We need experts who will

come up with solutions and the will to make them

work

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In 1995,Pitroda founded World Tel-a global organisation

to develop telecom infrastructure in third world countries

and became the CEO and subsequently the chairman.

He was also an advisor to Kofi Annan, the United National

General Secretary on the ICT Advisory Committee.

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AWARDS

He received Indias National Citizens award.

In 1993,he was awarded the IIT Alumni Medal.

1995 the International DistinguishedLeadership Award.

In 2002,he was presented

the IT Lifetime AchievementAward.

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Pitroda is currently working

on an electronic wallet.

The future lies in electronic payment

systems.The payment systems that exist are

obsolete.