The Indian government has allotted spectrum to four operators paving the way for starting high-speed mobile broadband.
The Indian government has allotted spectrum to four operators paving the way for starting high-speed mobile broadband.
According to department of telecom (DoT) 20 Mhz of spectrum has been given to the four firms — Infotel, Bharti, Aircel and Tikona Digital, which have licences.
The other two — Qualcom and Augere (Mauritius) — would be given the radio waves as soon as they procure telecom licences.
Infotel, acquired by RIL, was the only successful bidder in all of the 22 circles in the BWA auction conducted recently. Bharti had got in four, Aircel in eight and Tikona in five.
The operators have already said to be talks with the telecom vendors such as Samsung, Motorola, Ericsson, Huawei and ZTE for deploying either WiMax or TD-LTE platform.
The combined revenues for the Indian government from the 3G auction and the sale of broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum is Rs 1.06 lakh crore. The government expected to get Rs 35,000 crore.