Job Prospects for Telecommunication Engineers in India.

What are the Job Prospects for Telecommunication Engineers? Focus being on India.

Telecommunication was recently termed as “The Second IT industry of India”, just like the IT industry, the telecom industry has been on the rise since sometime in India. The sharp rise in Mobile Phone users in India has pressurized the existing communication infrastructure, thus generating a demand for better services from the Industry. In turn this has created a vacuum demand for telecommunication engineers.
Plenty of job opportunities are available for graduates in the telephone industry.
Generally they are employed as :
• engineers/ test engineers
• software/ application engineers
• product managers
• customer support staff
• installers/ repairers
• power reactor operators
•power distributors/ dispatchers

Cable and satellite networks, information and broadcasting sectors, railways or police wireless organizations, aerospace industry, telecommunication service providers, mobile phone service providers are some other areas that one could get a job.

You can also find employment in this field as design-development, production, quality assurance, sales, servicing and software engineers.