MUMBAI: India’s premier business channel, CNBC India will partner Sun Microsystems and SAP India to launch the fourth in the series on industry vertical forums - CNBC Industry Vector.

With a focus on the Indian telecom industry, CNBC Industry Vector would comprise corporate chieftains, opinion makers and eminent personalities who would actively participate and discuss issues relevant to the Indian telecom sector. This interactive session will be held on 8 January at the Grand Ball Room of the Grand Hotel (Grand Hyatt) Delhi. The panel of speakers include the department of telecom ex secretary Shyamal Ghosh, BPL Innovision's Rajeev Chandrasekher, BSNL MD Prithipal Singh.

The CNBC series will focus on challenges faced by the telecom sector, parameters for growth in the sector, developments on limited mobility telephony, funding pressure, price wars, consolidation in the industry, among other issues.

An official release informs that this kind of platform has become all the more essential for an industry like telecom, whose fortunes have a domino effect on the rest of the economy.