BSNL Plans To Roll Out 3G By March ’06

Telecom Asia: India’s BSNL is set to offer 3G mobile services by the end of financial year 2005, the company’s top executive said. BSNL chief AK Sinha also said BSNL is “busy preparing the tender document for BSNL’s 3G network.”
Sinha said that the tender to implement 3G will be out “in the next three to four weeks.” The tender will comprise 40 million to 60 million lines, of which around 30% lines will be dedicated for 3G service. “We hope that by March, next year, we will be able to roll out the service,” said Sinha.
According to the BSNL, depending on the government’s decision on spectrum allocation and market study on the demand of 3G services among the customers, BSNL will decide the technical aspects of the network which will go with the tender. “Before coming out with the tender we have to decide in how many cities we will roll out 3G service,” he said.

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