3G on the backburner
As the rest of the world switches on to next generation telecom networks, India seems to stay well behind the curve, largely due to warring authorities who can’t seem to agree on what should be done and a hysterical defence establishment who guard ‘their’ spectrum zealously.
As the rest of the world switches on to next generation telecom networks, India seems to stay well behind the curve, largely due to warring authorities who can’t seem to agree on what should be done and a hysterical defence establishment who guard ‘their’ spectrum zealously.
And a few weeks after the Department of Telecom announced the “impending” announcement of norms, the trust vote in Parliament has put the policy on hold yet again.
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A senior executive at a leading private telecom operator believes that nothing much will happen until the next administration gets voted in. “3G won’t be introduced until late 2009 at the earliest,” he said.
—Kushan Mitra
