Hmm well that was a lot of info! Thanks Sir. I will try it out with AirTel and let you know how it goes! What about iPhone users? I am suprised no body has bothered about the internet speeds we are getting! And yes I have heard of the 8,000+ Crore for the 3G Spectrum! But if they give it out cheap I am sure under one year they will be able to get back the money considering how many people are using mobile networks in India!
you really have no clue about the indian market right? indian market is dominated by cheap mobile phones. a typical indian customer does not like to pay more than 100-200 rupees for mobile usage. a lot of them cannot even afford to pay this much. forget smartphones. there is a very small market for it (relatively speaking).
there is no freaking way any mobile operator in the market can recover the money spent on 3G spectrum within one year. it would take them a couple of years to do so. you have to remember that they also have to spend money on infrastructure for 3G. mobile towers, network equipments and so on. it is not that simple.
and bandwidth itself is not very cheap. from what i have read on this forum... it still cost enough money. not as much as 100 bucks for 2GB which airtel is charging but still around 10-20 rupees per GB. they can afford to give cheap plans on Edge because the user is not going to do much with it. but if they do offer 3G services, data usage and network congestion is going to increase several times.
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as for BSNL 3G. getting a SIM is a pretty hard task. getting customer support is next to impossible. and from what i have seen it is not very cheap. and there is no guarantee of service quality.
you really have no clue about the indian market right? indian market is dominated by cheap mobile phones. a typical indian customer does not like to pay more than 100-200 rupees for mobile usage. a lot of them cannot even afford to pay this much. forget smartphones. there is a very small market for it (relatively speaking).
there is no freaking way any mobile operator in the market can recover the money spent on 3G spectrum within one year. it would take them a couple of years to do so. you have to remember that they also have to spend money on infrastructure for 3G. mobile towers, network equipments and so on. it is not that simple.
and bandwidth itself is not very cheap. from what i have read on this forum... it still cost enough money. not as much as 100 bucks for 2GB which airtel is charging but still around 10-20 rupees per GB. they can afford to give cheap plans on Edge because the user is not going to do much with it. but if they do offer 3G services, data usage and network congestion is going to increase several times.
---------- Post added at 02:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:38 PM ----------
as for BSNL 3G. getting a SIM is a pretty hard task. getting customer support is next to impossible. and from what i have seen it is not very cheap. and there is no guarantee of service quality.
