3G Spectrum Auction Fixed For 7th Dec – Lets Hope It Doesn’t Get Delayed Again!

Well if the DoT and the Government had stuck to its promise the above date of 7th December would have been the actual roll out date for 3G across all operators but (sigh!) promises are meant to be broken....
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3G Base Price Nailed At Rs 3,500 crore – A Look At How The 3G Saga Was Held Back

Price fixed, price changed. Auction confirmed, auction delayed. Everything settles down, but it gets messed up again. And, again. If you’ve still not figured out what I’m talking about, too...
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‘Rs 35,000 Crore Revenue Estimated from 3G Spectrum Auction’ – Union Budget 2009-’10

The Great Indian 3G saga continues as the Government shoot up their expected income from auctioning 3G spectrum. Along with next generation features on mobile phones, third generation (3G) spectrum will...
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Finally! Govt Fixes 3G Spectrum Reserve Prices At Rs 4,040 Crores! – A Look At The Great Indian 3G Saga

(With Inputs from Siddarth Raman) It seems that the conflict between the finance and telecom ministry related to the fixing of reserve price for 3G auction has finally come to an end. The Government has...
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DoT Is Mulling A Significant Hike In 3G Auction Prices

The ministry of communications in a bid to fasten things on 3G front may hike the reserve auction price for pan-India 3G spectrum. This recommendation is currently mooted by DoT and would soon be forwarded...
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3G Auction In 2009 And Local Calls At 10 Paisa Says A.Raja

“Definitely… in 2009 itself” is what was told by A Raja to reporters in New Delhi when he was asked as to when the 3G auctions are expected. The jinxed 3G auctions which have been delayed many...
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3G Gets Poor Response – A Pricing Or Device Issue? – Impact On Auctions?

State Owned Telecom firms MTNL and BSNL had launched 3G facilities a couple of months ago even though the auctions for the private players had been in a quandry. MTNL had launched its services in Mumbai...
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The Great Indian 3G Auction, Deferred yet again.. Finance Ministry scales down the estimated revenue

I’ve been desperately waiting to get my hands on 3G and I am amongst those hundreds of thousands of people who already bought a 3G supported mobile handset for the same. Well the latest update on...
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BSNL To Roll Out 3G In Orissa

The 3G is finally set to arrive in India, BSNL, the telecom major is doing it’s initial rollout in Orissa. The 3G services would be first launched in Bhubaneswar and later in the district headquarters...
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DoT To Raise 3G & Wimax Auction Base Price by 70%

We blogged recently on how the 3G auction was relentlessly getting delayed due to the conflict on the reserve price between the DoT and Finance Ministry. Now in a bid to get the auction process for 3G...
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3G Aution Delayed Yet Again.. While Mobile Numbers Grow 10 Million Yet Again!!

Its a paradox of sorts as history keeps repeating itself in the mobile telephony space. So the much awaited 3G auction will need to wait a little over 2 weeks more if latest reports are to be believed....
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3G Auction Delayed To Jan 15 – Roll Out May Take A Whole Year..

Well we had blogged about the fact that 3G auction could be delayed and delayed it is but not by much its scheduled to be two weeks later than the earlier scheduled date due to requests by operators and...
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Economic Slowdown May Impact 3G Spectrum Auction?

Well a market crash affects everyone and even though Jet airways may have hived off and then called back its 1900 employees that in no way means that the worst is over yet! Looking at the current market...
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