Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Huge payments for 3G by operators makes mobile services costlier

It is an era of technology and in this race all service provides don't want to miss even a single chance to cope up themselves with emerging technologies, as every day there are new experiments carried out and this is time of 3G yes now third generation (3G) has got its great demand , and the operators are going to offer something new to gt yourself ready with technological advancements.

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The renowned operators like Vodafone Essar, Bharti Airtel, Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications have come out as winners in the auction that conducted very recently, all of these big service providers have form a consent to pay as much as Rs 67,718 crore to the Government to but the required base and spectrum that is essential to offer 3G services.

Now the question arises that this high payments by service providers will result in the hike of tariffs, Bharti Airtel, has to pay Rs 12,295 crore the highest bidder, a Bharti spokesperson says that this might results in the a drive in the prices beyond reasonable levels.

There are 500 million mobile users in India and 3G is going to be the only way to access broadband services on mobile devices. So if the number of people using this service is concerned the spectrum price is viable. because 3G has all the potential to be used for both data and voice, so there is no doubt that It will increase the revenue per user and consequently service providers should be able to absorb the
high costs .

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