With the tepid response in India’s biggest ever sale of mobile airwaves Digital India will have to wait for world class internet services
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India’s biggest ever sale of mobile airwaves saw a tepid end with 60% of the airwaves left unsold and govt earning Rs 65,789. The govt had for the first time included the premium LTE band 700MHz in the auction. The premium 700MHz LTE band was left untouched and unsold. The main reason for the premium band being left unsold is the premium pricing it came at. The telecom regulator
The ecosystem for 700MHz is still non-existent but the band is extremely promising to provide super fast data services in the future but telcos stayed away from the premium band due to high reserve price, India’s largest telecom operator
It certainly is a dent in terms of govt’s inflows from
The telecom regulator may have considered the ever growing data market and strong propagation of the 700MHz band as it can reduce the cost of setting up a network by a massive 70% but telcos decided to skip the high power data band, Rajan Mathews, Director General,
We’ll have to see what really happens with the premium 700MHz band in the next round of auction, if the 700MHz band will see a similar fate like the 800MHz band but if the band remains unsold for long the progress on the growth of ecosystem will hit a roadblock and even with the promise of a
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