Qualcomm hits back at India’s DoT over broadband licence
Qualcomm has hit back at India’s Department of Telecom after being told it stands to lose the $1bn investment and its ISP licence that it acquired in the country’s wireless broadband airwaves (BWA) auction. The company said that it applied for its ISP licence through locally incorporated entities on 9th of Aug 2010, which is well within the three months window period as required by the NIA.
India rejects spectrum price hike proposal
WiMAX supporters may well have breathed a sight of relief this week as India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) rejected a proposal by the finance ministry to double the reserve price for a pan-Indian WiMAX licence. If the proposal had been accepted, bidding for a pan-Indian WiMAX licence in the 2.3GHz and 2.5GHz frequency bands would [...]
Indian WiMAX winners can offer voice, says DoT
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has proposed that winners in the upcoming licence auctions for broadband wireless access (BWA) – read mobile WiMAX – will be able to offer voice as well as data services. But the dispensation comes at a price. Instead of calculating the BWA licence reserve price at 25 per cent of [...]
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