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Finmin proposes base 3G entry fee

The finance ministry has proposed a compromise formula for putting a value to the scarce 3G spectrum. It has recommended that operators should be charged a base entry fee to begin with and subsequently a revenue share for the use of 3G spectrum.
The ministry, in its proposal, says the entry fee should not be so [...]

Nortel’s outlook on 3G in India

Excerpts from an interview in CIOL with Malur Narayan, Director, Wireless Solutions, Nortel Networks.
Will the operators migrate to 3G service provision with their existing vendors?
3G is fundamentally a different technology. So the markets are wide open. For example, in the Europe, we were not with many operators of GSM. But a lot of them when [...]

India to launch satellite for multimedia broadcasts

India on Thursday announced plans to launch by 2008 a satellite capable of offering multimedia broadcasts to mobile phones and audio-video receivers fitted in vehicles.
The project to design, develop and launch GSAT-6/INSAT-4E, a multimedia mobile satellite system, at an estimated cost of Rs.2.69 billion ($58.5 million) was cleared by a meeting of the cabinet chaired [...]

3G is a year away in India

CTO of Reliance Infocomm, BM Jain says that 3G services are a year in India away since there is no customer demand for it yet.
“In the initial stage we would start it in metros than mega cities and than across the country as it does not fulfil the requirement of customers in towns and villages,” [...]

BSNL plans to roll out 3G by March ‘06

Financial Express quotes BSNL chief AK Sinha saying the company is set to start offering 3G mobile services by the end of FY 2005. It plans to launch EDGE by the end of this month.
BSNL is preparing the tender for 3G network which will be out in the next three to four weeks. The tender [...]

Orange wants to enter India

Speaking at the India-EU Business Summit earlier this week, Sanjiv Ahuja CEO of French mobile giant Orange said the company would be very keen to provide 3G services in India.
Mr Ahuja said that, although India’s potential is huge, Orange has so far refrained from entering its mobile sector because of the government-imposed limits on foreign [...]

GSMA welcomes TRAI’s 3G recommendations

The GSM Association (GSMA) has welcomed the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for global spectrum harmonization of 3G services by choosing IMT2000. This ensures that India retains alignment with the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) IMT2000 core (2GHz) band for 3G services.
According to the press release, last year the GSMA called on [...]

TRAIL and Error

Business Standard has a good write-up on the issues pertaining to the new TRAI policy recommendations on 3G.
Also check this related story: Ratan Tata favours revenue share and license fee for 3G.

HSDPA versus EVDO

If you can talk about EVDO we can boast about HSDPA. This is what comes across from the Business Line story which says Indian GSM operators are now looking at deploying this latest technology.
Looking at!? We don’t even have decent 2.5G implementations and the operators are already looking at deploying HSDPA which can be called [...]

Cellcos allege 3G spectrum recommendations partisan

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 [...]

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