Studies across the world have proved that higher broadband penetration has helped the global economy to move from recession to recovery. A recent McKinsey study projected that a country's GDP improves by 0.6 percent for every 10 percent increase in penetration of broadband and also improves the competitiveness of a nation.

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India needs a state-of-the-art communications infrastructure built on digital technologies such as IP, 4G and smart antennae. A 4G network such as WiMAX on BWA spectrum would enable India to have a digital national broadband information infrastructure right now.

Thus we can prepare India to be a global creative centre of innovation with applications, content and service generation capabilities and skills. BWA spectrum for WiMAX would enable the delivery of quality knowledge content for e-travel, e-commerce, and telemedicine services at affordable levels for different economic segments of India.

National industry segments of  IT (Computing, apps and content), media, silicon, Internet, and telecom expects a fair view of the BWA spectrum auction policy, schedule and wants time bound action programme.

A Broadband India seeks to position it as a longtime leader in Internet savvy society creating a new framework exploiting Indian software talent. India’s digital dividend through broadband growth will have a transformative effect on young India and would position the country as a global hub for telecom, media and Internet services.

National resource of 60MHz BWA spectrum in global bands of 2.5 and 2.3GHz  needs to be immediately exploited for utilization rather to to remain unutilized for over three years now by possible spectrum hoarders.

India has already lost an opportunity to serve 20 million broadband users over the past three years and improve our economy by about $5 billion due to the delay in BWA auctions and now the Indian Govt should not allow the spectrum to be hoarded for another three years.

Objectives for broadband growth in India

Indian Governemnt has to enable the telecom sector to achieve the following by immediate use of BWA spectrum for all the two slots of 20MHz each and build a national BB infrastructure starting from 2010.

1. Establishment of a commercially viable scalable wireless broadband network infrastructure for NextGen Internet, media and broadband access services on 4G WiMAX.

WiMAX technology would help create 50 million broadband subsciber capacity and ubiquitous coverage of 1000 cities and towns by 2012 and also helping 10 percent of rural SDCAs to be covered on BB service capability exploiting the already available tower, fiber and real estate infrastructure.