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WiMAX: To be or not to be

BANGAORE, INDIA: “To be or not to be 3G-WiMAX”, this existential dilemma seems to have jostled the Indian Government. The dispute between the Department of Space (DoS) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) over vacating the broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum, with the floor price set at 17.50 billion rupees, can delay WiMax rollout in the country till 2010.

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WiMAX or Broadband...? And the argument begins

BANGALORE, INDIA: Has India's wait for WiMAX been answered already? If going by reports, India already has WiMAX services in the market..

State-owned players BSNL and MTNL got spectrum prior to the WiMAX auction. However, has BSNL launched WiMAX in India? (BSNL claims to have launched WiMAX in four states - Goa, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra).

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Tata Indicom: WiMAX or Broaband?

Mehul Kapadia, head, marketing, Tata Communications Internet Services Ltd , says: “We have launched enterprise WiMAX in 150 cities. In Retail we have over 90 cities already live with WiMAX and have close to 50,000 customers on WiMAX in these cities.”

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India yet to get first WiMAX service: Rao

According to C S Rao, president, WiMax Forum (India Chapter), says, there are no WiMAX services in the country as of now. “What BSNL, TTSL, Reliance Communications or others have launched is not WiMAX,” he says.


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C S Rao, WiMAX Forum (India), chairman WiMAX has direct correlative to GDP

Spectrum in the quad band of GSM is already saturated

Naresh Kumar, GM, South Asia-Pacific, application engineering organization, Agilent Technologies India WiMAX best for Indian terrain

End-user will take call on Next-Gen technology

Yatish Pathak, CEO and founder, SOMA Networks WiMAX: A DSL alternative

Soma Networks does not see mobility business case for WiMAX


Mobile Broadband: Driving inclusive growth

That broadband can spur inclusive growth is well acknowledged by the global industry. In India, while the Government and industry have helped achieve a stupendous growth in the number of mobile agenda.

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