COAI slams TRAI on 3G spectrum allocation

GSM body COAI says that TRAI’s recommendations on allocation of 3G spectrum were completely in favour of CDMA mobile operators and also criticised high base price of frequency. “On the whole, the TRAI recommendations are rather slanted in favour of CDMA and disadvantageous to GSM,” COAI Director General T V Ramchandran said in a statement. [...]

TRAI recommendations favour CDMA operators

Financial Express states that the CDMA operators will have an 8-9 month head start over GSM players and a significant price and technology advantage in rolling out 3G services from the day of acquiring frequency. This is largely because CDMA players have been given the option to bid for 3G services on the 800 Mhz [...]

PAN India license fee worries operators

One of the major concerns of operators with TRAI recommendations on 3G spectrum allocations is the Rs 1,400-crore base price that has been set for a PAN India license. GSM players pointed out that recommendations were near identical to Tata group chairman Ratan Tata’s offer of a Rs 1,500-crore national licence fee for 3G spectrum. [...]

TRAI fixes hybrid 3G spectrum fee structure

Telecom regulator TRAI has submitted its recommendations on “allocation and pricing of spectrum for 3G services and broadband wireless access

The Samvat of Indian Telecom

Rediff has an article on Dhirubhaism, which provides illustrative anecdotes on the management and business style of one of the most successful Indian business tycoon. Dhirubhai Ambani was father of Mukesh and Anil Ambani – the erstwhile and present heads of Reliance Communications respectively. Reliance Infocomm, as it was known earlier, indeed proved to be [...]

HFCL to produce 3G CDMA handsets

Qualcomm has announced the granting of a 3G license to HFCL for the development, manufacture and sale of CDMA2000 handsets and modem cards. HFCL will manufacture CDMA handsets in its factories in Chennai and Himachal Pradesh. The indigenously manufactured handsets will hit the market by January 2007. The size of the CDMA handset market is [...]

TRAI issues fresh recommendations on AGR

Following a TDSAT directive, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has come out with recommendations on activities to be taken into account for calculation of an operators’ Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR). What is AGR? Telecom operators calculate their revenue and pay revenue share to the government on the basis of AGR. Activities of an [...]

Its the costs stupid: Reliance Comm

Surajeet Das Gupta writes in Business Standard that Reliance Communications has cited cheaper equipment and handset prices as the key reason for shifting of its focus to GSM. Raising concerns about Qualcomm’s policies (as it is a key reason for the high CDMA costs), the company, including Ambani, in its discussions with analysts has pointed [...]

Wipro to develop software for 3G Nokia handset

Wipro is undertaking a major part of the software development for a 3G handset that Nokia is planning to launch next year. The company had entered into an agreement with Nokia to provide smartphone development and integration services. Under the recent agreement signed between Nokia and Wipro Technologies, a team of senior software engineers from [...]

Bharti wins mobile license in Europe

Bharti Global, the offshore investment arm of Bharti, has has won the second telecom licence to operate 3G and 2G mobile services in Guernsey, an Island located in the English Channel in Europe. This is the third international telecom venture of Bharti, and the second in Europe. In May 2006, Bharti bagged the license to [...]

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