Re: Telcos to add Rs 92,000 crore debt; another auction to hit Airtel, Idea and Vodafone finances severely
Arun Mehta <[email protected]>
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On Feb 16, 2014 3:51 AM, "Jim Forster" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another idea that's come up recently for spectrum, as a kind of half-way point, is Primary & Secondary Users. Primary holders have full rights. Secondary holders can use as long as they don't interfere (by some measure) with Primary holders. Indeed that is the WiFi model -- this distinction between primary and secondary holders already exists in Indian policy. > > For better or worse, the reality is that GSM/UMTS/LTE is designed to operated without having to cope with other base stations, so a single operator per frequency per area is pretty much required. WiFi is designed to be quite resilent, but not GSM/UMTS/LTE. But a Secondary License regime would work for GSM/UMTS/LTE. These technologies were not designed to share, so of course they aren't good at it. If the government were to open up some spectrum, say the terrestrial TV spectrum, but only to those who can share, then very soon the technologies that would work would appear. Indeed, it would be great if terrestrial TV is permitted for community TV. Every TV set in the country can receive terrestrial analog TV, and it is a pity we do not use this opportunity to reach large numbers of poor Indians. Arun Mehta _______________________________________________ India-gii mailing list India-gii-IAPFreCvJWP2/[email protected] https://lists.india-gii.org/mailman/listinfo/india-gii