Cellcos allege 3G spectrum recommendations partisan

Category: 3G | No Comments | Posted on May 10, 2005

GSM operators are fearing that forthcoming TRAI recommendations on spectrum would favour CDMA players in terms of allocation and enable the largest CDMA player in the country an instantaneous ‘back-door’ entry to the third generations (3G mobile) services.

“Any provision of additional carriers now to CDMA players would be grossly anti-competitive as it would enable them to offer 3G services immediately via EVDO. Such move would benefit only the largest CDMA operator,” according to an internal spectrum note of COAI.

“Thus a backdoor entry into 3G could be secured by the largest CDMA player while the GSM players (along with the second largest CDMA players) would be kept waiting till the IMT-2000 spectrum is made available to all.”

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