As is widely reported in media reports in last 24 hours, Qualcomm which is among the biggest telecom hardware and chipset design companies in the world and inventors of CDMA and most of 3G technology, has decided to bid for Broadband wireless Access spectrum that is to be auctioned by government starting 9th April, 2010.
Qualcomm bids for broadband wireless spectrum - NDTV Profit
Qualcomm eyes partners for wireless broadband venture - CNBC-TV18 -
IMHO, this is the most important news for Broadband market in India for 2010 because:
1. Qualcomm want to tie up with existing cellphone operators for 2G networks and also for tower infrastructure and build their network using LTE technology also known as 4G. As most of us already know LTE is being commercially rolled out in a few developed countries. Thus India will jump directly from 2G to 4G networks which is the fastest speed wireless broadband network technology around. This when the biggest telecom companies of the world like AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone (in Europe) etc. will launch their own LTE networks. So we will catch up with the best of the world at least in terms of the technology.
2. Very few companies in the world have launched wimax networks and LTE is emerging as a de-facto standard technology for brodband wireless across the world resulting in more choice of handsets and dongles and such for customers at a lower price.
3. Customers from India will have seamless roaming available to them when roaming in most of the developed countries of the world. Something that wimax technology will not ensure because very few operators in developed countries are talking about wimax rollout.
4. No Indian telecom company has deeper pockets than the Qualcomm. So Qualcomm can put the money on table for fast network rollout. Chances are that we will see LTE rollout at least in metro cities by the end of calender year 2010 or Q1-2011.
So, here I am hoping that Qualcomm wins a slot out of the two in broadband wireless access spectrum auction.
Qualcomm bids for broadband wireless spectrum - NDTV Profit
Qualcomm eyes partners for wireless broadband venture - CNBC-TV18 -
IMHO, this is the most important news for Broadband market in India for 2010 because:
1. Qualcomm want to tie up with existing cellphone operators for 2G networks and also for tower infrastructure and build their network using LTE technology also known as 4G. As most of us already know LTE is being commercially rolled out in a few developed countries. Thus India will jump directly from 2G to 4G networks which is the fastest speed wireless broadband network technology around. This when the biggest telecom companies of the world like AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone (in Europe) etc. will launch their own LTE networks. So we will catch up with the best of the world at least in terms of the technology.
2. Very few companies in the world have launched wimax networks and LTE is emerging as a de-facto standard technology for brodband wireless across the world resulting in more choice of handsets and dongles and such for customers at a lower price.
3. Customers from India will have seamless roaming available to them when roaming in most of the developed countries of the world. Something that wimax technology will not ensure because very few operators in developed countries are talking about wimax rollout.
4. No Indian telecom company has deeper pockets than the Qualcomm. So Qualcomm can put the money on table for fast network rollout. Chances are that we will see LTE rollout at least in metro cities by the end of calender year 2010 or Q1-2011.
So, here I am hoping that Qualcomm wins a slot out of the two in broadband wireless access spectrum auction.
