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Two months back when India auctioned 3G & BWA (Read: Broadband Wireless Access) spectrum, speculations were rife about ‘Broadband Penetration in India’. As telephone subscriber base crossing 620 million, with more than 100% urban penetration, less than 1% population in India can boast to have access to broadband Internet. But this is likely to change [...]
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After successful completion of 3G Spectrum auctions in last month, seven Indian Telecom Operators are now gearing up for next phase of 3G services deployments i.e. network rollouts. I hope, as promised by DoT, the allocated spectrum will be handed over to respective winners by Sep-10, as the issue of spectrum handover was again mired with controversy [...]
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Today, I received an interesting map on email, which displayed state wise 3G spectrum winners. If you look at it closely then you will notice one simply fact about 3G coverage- network fragmentation. As I pointed out in earlier post that no single operator has won PAN India 3G spectrum, the auction has left 3G coverage [...]
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Now as India’s 3G spectrum auction winners are declared, let’s take a quick review of what’s in store:- Though 3G pan India bid touched INR 16828 Cr, no single operator won PAN India License. Aircel, Bharti & Rcom, each won bids in 13 circles, followed by Idea (11), Tata (9) & Vodafone (9). STel is surprised [...]
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I wrote first time on 3G in Aug-08 when I was writing blogs for SiliconIndia. It was just the beginning of new Telecom Era in India. Subsequently, before I jumped on to start Telecomblogs, I continued to write on 3G, WiMAX & related topics. I was really excited to find out why would someone needs [...]
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Finally, there’s some good news coming from DoT, who is likely to auction the 3G spectrum in New Year. This has been announced recently, in a memorandum released by DoT and likely date of auction would be 14 Jan; if all goes well. So after settling down the differences with FinMin, & good amount of negotiations [...]
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