Defence ministry to free spectrum for 3G by year end

Posted on | May 26, 2006 |

The defence ministry will release 45 Mhz of spectrum by the end of this year for providing 3G services. DoT has asked the TRAI to give its recommendations on pricing of 3G spectrum.

Article in ET also quotes telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran saying that an investment of about $10-11 billion can materialise in the telecom manufacturing sector in the next 2-3 years.

He projected that India would have 500m telephones by ‘10. “The current subscriber base in the country is 150m. The target for ‘07, which has already been announced earlier, is 250m new phone connections. Now we are setting a target of 500m telephone connections by ‘10,

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