Monday, March 22, 2010

3G race in India

3G race in India is quite famous as the bidding starts from April 9. Many telecom firms are going to get the license for the 3G airwaves. 3G is part of an evolutionary process, and is primarily driven by demand – be it for more voice services or data-rich offers.

As India is the second biggest market in the wireless sector with 550 million mobile users many telecom operators especially well noted firm’s like Bharti Airtel, Reliance communication, Vodafone and Etisalat had submitted applications to bid for the 3G airwaves for all of India’s 22 telecoms zones i.e. 2 slots per service area.

3G is certainly a boon to urban platform whereas the spectrum availability for 2G and mobile broadband penetration that will further boost adoption of value added services. Bidding for 3G would start from a government-fixed base price of 35 billion rupees ($770 million) for all-India radio waves and 17.5 billion rupees for All-India BWA spectrum.

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