Archive for the ‘3G and 4G Technologies’ Category

Contrary to the telecom operators' contention that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (Trai's) recommendations - hiking the reserve price for the auction of 2G spectrum - will make it prohibitive to operate, an analysis of the recommendation shows that the service providers stand to gain under the new regime ... Full story

Telecom major Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said it will be ready to launch 4G service in Bangalore in the next 30 days. "We will be ready for launching it (4G service) in Bangalore in 30 days time. We have selected Huawei (as network equipment vendor) for Bangalore," Bharti Airtel CEO Sanjay Kapoor told reporters ... Full story

Eyeing 4G services roll out in India, Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has decided to scale up investment and operation of its Indian subsidiary. The company, which has been supplying equipment to leading telecom operators in India, including Reliance Communications and Tata Communications, said the decision to increase investments and ... Full story

Mukesh Ambani’s next big idea — rollout of commoditised fourth-generation 4G telecom services across the country — is taking concrete shape. After announcing last month that Nagpur would be a hub for its 4G operations, trials are set to begin for services at Reliance Industries’ (RIL) massive complex in Jamnagar next month, in ... Full story

Infotel Broadband, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has suggested that the reserve price of the 4G spectrum should be fixed 7 to 8 times higher than that of 3G radio waves. The reserve price for pan-India 3G spectrum had been fixed at Rs 3,500 crore. In response to Trai's consultation paper on 'Auction of ... Full story

Chinese equipment vendor Huawei said it expects about 40 per cent growth in revenues from India in 2012 on the back of large-scale 3G roll out, notwithstanding uncertainty in the telecom sector. "Despite uncertainty, India is on verge of introducing new technologies, specifically 4G (LTE). This will drive the growth for mobile ... Full story

Bharti AirTel, India’s largest mobile operator, is set to win the race to roll out the country’s first 4G mobile telecom network with a new service said to be launching in Kolkata on March 20. The country’s largest private telecom company had earlier appointed Nokia Siemens ... Full story

India is looking to hold spectrum auctions for the fourth generation (4G) mobile services by the end of this year, besides finalising plans to sell off radio waves for the 2G services, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has said. “By the end of the year, we are actually going to auction 4G (spectrum). ... Full story

Inaugurating the eighth National Telecom Seminar with the theme ' Telefocus' here this week, Akhil Gupta, Deputy CEO and MD, Bharti Enterprises, said that he believed that the future of the Indian telecom industry was secure and bright, while admitting that it was facing some problems. Speaking ... Full story

Reliance Communications - the second largest mobile operator in India based on users - claims 2.8 million active 3G users, the highest in India. Idea Cellular has 2.25 million 3G users. While around 30 percent of 7 million 3G users of Bharti Airtel are active, according to media reports. India's total 3G user base is around 10-12 ... Full story