It would be a major sign of relief for the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) mobile players as Department of Telecommunication (DoT), as per sources said was planning to launch a separate policy for 3G spectrum allocation for CDMA players.
Earlier, ‘there was nothing for the CDMA players in 3G spectrum policy. DoT had not allocated any specific spectrum for CDMA.’ as CDMA major players said on the government’s previous proposal of 3G spectrum policy. ‘This new move of government will enable the development of CDMA players in the country,’ as CDMA service providers believe.
DoT in its new move has decided to make new guidelines for the CDMA players in which the CDMA players, who would bid successfully, get the spectrum bandwidths within 450 Mega Hertz (MHz) and 800 MHz spectrums.
At present, Reliance Telecom, Tata Tele Services, state owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Sistema backed Shyam Telelink are the major CDMA players in the country.
According to DoT, there are only 2 slots in 800 MHz band width while CDMA players are four in numbers. So, DoT has decided to introduce an auction process for receiving the best slot as per their bids for CDMA players in 800 MHz band.
The 450 MHz and 800 MHz spectrums are usually uses in the world by the CDMA players, which are the optimum bandwidths for them. At present, CDMA players are sharing the bandwidth of 2.1 GHz, which had been basically allocated for GSM players in the 2G spectrums.
After entering in the third generation of mobile service, the quality of voice, data connectivity on handsets and several new values added services would dramatically improve, as experts believe.
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