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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Spectacular Spectrum , 3G and money

Imagine surfing the net with 256kbps speed and many more data related offers on ur mobile. even though we have such facility in 2G (second genaration) we have limitations. 3G makes it happen. The telecom operators in India are watching it .
Tatas offer of 1500cr for spectrum allocation and opposition by some other opearators is in news.
As the Titanic sunk 1912, people thought of regualtion of spectrum.
As spectrum is a scarce resource and one time fee which can fetch any where between 9000crore. but high one time entry fee coupled with annual licence fee may affect the end user. As Indian consumers are ( like me) price sensitive this may reduce the mobile phone penetration.
Why so much fuss about 3G ? GSM and CDMA players fighting bcz if u allocate spectrum GSM they will have first mover advantage and the same with respect to CDMA . As the price of handheld devices go down the demand for spectrum will increase. So wait and watch !!

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