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30 Jul

3G coming soon to India - iPhone 3G users in India are going to have a blast

Posted on 2008 under iPhone Duniya | 1 Comment

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3G should have been launched by the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) way back in Oct 2007. And things were all set for this big launch, but the Defense Ministry objected and raised the question of security - “The Department of Telecom has written a note to the Group of Ministers (GoM) asking the latter to get the defense ministry to vacate spectrum for 3G services within 2007.” And things just dint happen - read more.

And now things seems to be getting back to track. Om Malik of GigoOm has this awesome post on how India might get lucky and get 3G soon. If this comes true, iPhone 3G would be the biggest mobile phone launch of 2008 in India.

My guess is that 3G should come true by this year end itself. Keeping my fingers crossed. Let me now pickup few excerpts from Om Malik’s post:

Indian Department of Telecommunications (DOT) is getting all set to introduce about a dozen 3G licenses in some of the more densely populated regions including the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu (including Chennai), Karnataka, and Kerala. The information comes to us from our friends at Packetology, a Telecom research firm focused on the Indian market.

According to initial DOT 3G policy, each carrier was going to get 5 MHz of spectrum and only 25 MHz of total spectrum was available.

[via - GigoOm]