Spectrum panel votes for status quo

Category: Government | No Comments | Posted on March 14, 2006

In a move that is likely to please neither GSM nor CDMA-based telecom operators, the special empowered committee on spectrum has proposed that the present spectrum allotment criteria remain unchanged.

Currently, GSM operators are given twice the amount of spectrum as compared to CDMA players for an equal number of subscribers.

This comes even as GSM operators have been demanding that the current allotment ratio be changed to 5:1 on the ground that CDMA was five times more spectrum-efficient, while CDMA operators have been fighting for equal allotment for both technology platforms.

The report also said both GSM and CDMA operators must be awarded additional spectrum based on the number of subscribers in a particular circle. While CDMA players currently enjoy this facility, GSM operators do not have the benefit of this differentiation.

Based on these criteria, the committee also presented a roadmap for additional spectrum allocations in the future.

“The suggested subscriber linkages have the advantage of simplicity and uniform applicability to both standards based on a 2: 1 relationship between GSM and CDMA spectrum,

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