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Indian telecom operators contemplating to skip 3G, go for 4G

December 23, 2009 By Kinjal Sangoi 4 Comments

LTE

 

When operators were willing to spend an arm and leg for 3G spectrum, the government was struggling to fix a base price and when government is ready, operators are thinking to give it a miss. An article in Business Line says that cellular operators are contemplating to skip 3G and instead go for 4G deployment expected in 2011. And if 4G or LTE (Long Term Evolution) arrives as expected, I think it makes more sense to skip 3G.

Operators’ rationale says that spectrum allocation will be done by August 2010 and services will be initiated in early 2011, which means 3G operators (there are 4 slots up for auction) won’t have enough time to recover their investment since LTE technology will be just around the corner.

The Indian government was expecting to rake in a healthy 250 billion rupees but if operators are not willing to adopt it, government’s projected cash reserves could go for a spin.

To give a gist, 3G and LTE technology offer high data speeds over-the-air. 3G is capable to give up to 14Mbit/s whereas LTE can give up to 100Mbit/s download speeds.

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Comments

  1. Gagan says

    December 23, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    We are just waiting for the arrival of some economical internet access medium so as to get rid of these wires and can stay online 24×7…….

    hope this will be done soon……

    Reply
  2. Rajesh Perumal says

    December 23, 2009 at 11:36 pm

    this is what we students want.. If they introduced 4G directly, the happiest men in this world are students…..

    Reply

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