India: 3G Services Likely to Start Mid-2008
NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- India's telecommunications service providers may likely be able to start offering third-generation, or 3G, mobile communication services in the country by mid-2008, the country's federal communications minister said Thursday.
"We are hopeful that some spectrum for both 2G (second generation) and 3G services will be vacated by the end of this year," A. Raja, who is also the information technology minister, said in a speech at an industry event.
The defense ministry controls most of the bandwidth in India and is expected to free some radio bandwidth that can be deployed for commercial use by mobile phone operators.
-By Shaleen Agrawal and Romit Guha, Dow Jones Newswires; 91-9900181471; romit.guha@dowjones.com
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Posted to the site on 25th October 2007
