Comments on: In India, WiMAX Takes Wings

By: Worldwide WiMAX Growth Wows - GigaOM

Worldwide WiMAX Growth Wows - GigaOM — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:06:09 +0000

[...] in the U.S. by Sprint and 13 rural carriers, is gaining ground in other areas of the world, especially India, according to data published today by TeleGeography [...]

By: sarvesh

sarvesh — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:11:43 +0000

wimax is very good technology but signals are not coverd more area

By: BSNL’s Big $750 MM WiMAX Network Plan « All About Mobile….

BSNL’s Big $750 MM WiMAX Network Plan « All About Mobile…. — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:51:17 +0000

[...] is often the target of choice four-letter words because of dropped calls to my parents in Delhi has been dabbling with WiMAX for a while now. The announcement comes close on the heels of the Indian government clarifying its 3G [...]

By: BSNL’s Big $750 MM WiMAX Network Plan « GigaOM

BSNL’s Big $750 MM WiMAX Network Plan « GigaOM — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:01:24 +0000

[...] is often the target of choice four letter words because of dropped calls to my parents in Delhi, has been dabbling with WiMAX for a while now. The announcement comes close on the heels of Indian Government clarifying its 3G [...]

By: Alexander Ainslie

Alexander Ainslie — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:30:03 +0000

Atlas Interactive India & BSNL?

Does anyone know whatever happened to the Triple Play deal that Atlas Interactive India had with BSNL to wire up 50-70 million homes? Their rollout partner was the Chinese firm ZTE and Atlas was said to have received trade finance commitments of US$1.2 billion directly from the Chinese govt. a few years back.

Alexander Paris, France

By: hassan

hassan — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:54:04 +0000

can any one give me a comparison of wimax VS ADSL.and is ADSL is more economical in rolling out to use than wimax if there is a good ADSL service to render triple play service.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:58:18 +0000

Can anyone send me a detailed report om wimax in India for a clear understanding.

By: Prateek

Prateek — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:37:18 +0000

WiMAX scene in India - It seems almost every major ISP is foraying into WiMAX. BSNL is betting huge; Sify is deploying 700 Base Stations (BTS) all across the country to serve 200 cities; Aircel has already rolled-out WiMAX for corporate offices in Chennai (Rs 0.5 million ~ $13000 yearly subscription with Rs 30,000 (~ $800) yearly equipment rental); Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) with a private company Microsense has 'un-wired' Pune with a combination of Wi-Fi and WiMAX ($6 for 100 hours of Wireless Broadband); VSNL is betting big too.

The reason behind this sudden push into WiMAX is because of TRAI's goal of reaching 10 million broadband users in India by 2007 end. TRAI has already allocated required spectrum to major ISPs. The authority has recommended allocation of 200 MHz of spectrum in the 3.3 to 3.4 GHz and 3.4 to 3.6 GHz to 12 majors ISPs and 1 small ISP in a circle in contiguous blocks of 15 MHz each. Further, 5.15 to 5.35 GHz and 5.725 to 5.875 GHz have been de-licensed for the operators to provide any kind of Broadband service without any spectrum acquisition of licensing cost.

By: Find White Papers

Find White Papers — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:45:55 +0000

I've been reading about WiMax deployment for a while now but have yet to actually see this in the US. Are they rolling this out in other countries first?

By: Ajit Bobra

Ajit Bobra — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:35:39 +0000

Hi,

What is the latest WiMAX scenerio in India ? What about allocation of spectrum for WiMAX ?

Can some one through light on this..

By: hoonar

hoonar — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:01:48 +0000

hey, could someone tell me how many customers can one WiMAX tower serve and what individual bandwidths would the customers get? and by the way, on a personal note, i believe that services like HSPA n its further evolutions will prove to be good enough for mobile wireless broadband and who would anyways take the headache of rolling out a completly new network for WiMAX?? WiMAX doesnt seem very promising...

By: shafi khan

shafi khan — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:17:16 +0000

hi there;
mobile wireless internet do have a good feture in india but it will take at least 3 more years when end user cpe will 50 – 80 $.then u will see a good groth in internet subscribers, till then fixed wimax will have its course.

By: Ol' Yeller

Ol' Yeller — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:04:47 +0000

Fixed wireless financials look great in greenfield rollouts (overseas countries without built-out wireline networks), but not where it has to compete with built-out fixed line networks. Having run the numbers 3 years ago, I can say the clear conclusion was to take the technology overseas. WiMax in US - versus DSL, Cable or Fiber?!?!? Sure, if you assume $10 monthly ARPUs, which no one who runs those financial models does… Ask those tough questions for US wireless hopefuls and you'll hear a lot of stammering. Amazingly, VCs and PE funds continue to pour money into US wireless broadband plays.

By: Alpesh

Alpesh — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:13:14 +0000

Great news OM. Would be interested in knowing how INTEL does in Mumbai.
Cheers!
Alpesh

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:04:16 +0000

Actually Om, you are confusing Fixed and Mobile WiMax in terms of frequencies. 3.5 GHz and thereabouts is going to be very popular for fixed deployments, as this frequency is avialable most everywhere but the US (and even here in some places). Indeed, most (all?) of the already certified Fixed WiMax gear is 3.5 GHz. 2.6 GHz is for Mobile WiMax. Note that the distinction I am making is not necessarily what flavor of 802.16, but whether the subscribers are actually mobile or not.

By: Yuvamani

Yuvamani — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:27:39 +0000

Om .. Dont you think that enterprises are better served by just fat pipes using plain old wirelines. The enterprises are clustered around few IT parks. Distribution is not the problem, back end bandwidth is.

I do not completely understand why go wireless?