India's much delayed 3G spectrum auction has now got a date from Department of Telecommunications. The auction was supposed to take place long time back but got delayed time and again. December 2009 was the month when it was going to happen but it got pushed to Jan 2010 and now it will be finally happening on 14th Jan 2009. The December auction was delayed by Defence due to some spectrum related issues. There will be a practice run couple of days before the actual auction takes place and Government must be happy as they are anticipating to raise almost $5.4 billion from the 3G auction. WiMax and Radio spectrum auctions would take place after the 3G auction is over. According to DoT website 21st December is the last date for applications for companies who are planning to take this auctions. India's neighbours like China and Japan are way ahead in terms of mobile technology and the delay in 3G auction has been a complete turn-off for mobile users as well as companies who are planning to get into the 3G race. There are already 100s of 3G enabled phones in the Indian market and 3G technology needs to be present in India ASAP so that mobile users can fully exploit the potential of their 3G enabled phones. All the details of the auction can be found in this 163 pager PDF.
India's much delayed 3G spectrum auction has now got a date from Department of Telecommunications. The auction was supposed to take place long time back but got delayed time and again. December 2009 was the month when it was going to happen but it got pushed to Jan 2010 and now it will be finally happening on 14th Jan 2009. The December auction was delayed by Defence due to some spectrum related issues. There will be a practice run couple of days before the actual auction takes place and Government must be happy as they are anticipating to raise almost $5.4 billion from the 3G auction. WiMax and Radio spectrum auctions would take place after the 3G auction is over. According to DoT website 21st December is the last date for applications for companies who are planning to take this auctions. India's neighbours like China and Japan are way ahead in terms of mobile technology and the delay in 3G auction has been a complete turn-off for mobile users as well as companies who are planning to get into the 3G race. There are already 100s of 3G enabled phones in the Indian market and 3G technology needs to be present in India ASAP so that mobile users can fully exploit the potential of their 3G enabled phones. All the details of the auction can be found in this 163 pager PDF.
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