After stone-cold blowing past its
original planned start window in January, India has announced that its huge 3G spectrum auction will finally kick off on December 7 of this year. Interestingly, operators
MTNL and
BSNL have both already begun their respective 3G rollouts, but they're not getting out of paying fair market prices: when the auction concludes, they'll need to pay the equivalent of the high bidder's price to keep their own slices of the airwaves. After the WCDMA 3G auction wraps up, both EV-DO and WiMAX auctions kick off two days later, which means the world's second most populous country is about to get a whole heck of a lot more high-speed wireless data -- or the promise of it, anyhow. [Warning: PDF link]
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Kevin @ Sep 16th 2009 11:31AM
So what's to stop some ahole from bidding up the prices of these spectrums when they know for sure these two carriers would have to outbid them to keep their 3G rollout infrastructure in play?
pradeep s @ Oct 8th 2009 7:14AM
first they were telling its on dec 7 but i came to know that its being postponed and the dates are not yet fixed