TRAI anticipates completing proposal on 4G by mid 2011
TRAI has stated that it is gearing up to come up with recommendation on the advanced 4G technology by the middle of this year.
The regulator will float consultation paper on 4G within a month to start discussion with the industry.
4G is expected to come next year.
The 4G technology is considered to have 10 times more data download speed as compared to 3G technology.
The data download speed of 3G technology is said to be in the range of 385 kilobytes per second to 2 megabyte per second while a user is on the move.
AT & T Coming back to India with 4G?
Global telecom giant, AT&T is reportedly in talks with chip maker Qualcomm for a possible partnership in India. Qualcomm holds the licence and spectrum to offer fourth generation or 4G wireless broadband services in four telecom circles in India. Qualcomm won BWA spectrum n New Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala for around US$ 1 billion.
Thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteBut just look at what happened to 3G. I simply can't think of someone like me making the commute from Trivandrum to Kochi on Jan Shatabdi (most of our 'long' commuters use the train) downloading something at 2 to 10 Mbps (that second figure seems hardly probable on anything but a monster of a cellphone). I'm not that rich, nor am I that lonely! A newspaper or a book would do fine rather than crook my neck and squint my eye on a 4" diagonal piece of screen.
in my opinion, BSNL should do well not to go after this. Unless the Govt makes it some sort of rebate, which is not likely.