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To: Eric L who wrote (8659)	3/16/2001 11:31:22 AM
From: straight life	Respond to of 196543

Indian WLL spectrum should be reserved for four operators By Jagdish Rattanani, Total Telecom, in Mumbai totaltele.com 15 March 2001 A recommendation paper on frequency allocation for telecoms services in India said frequencies reserved for wireless local loop services "should be given to a maximum of four operators [per circle] for deployment of wireless phones using CDMA or TDMA technologies." This would place a limit on the number of basic operators offering limited mobile services via WLL in each telecoms area, or "circle," even though the Indian government has opened the basic operators sector to unlimited competition. The paper by the Core Group on Telecom Industry Association, an industry body that studies spectrum allocation, said each of these operators should be given 5-MHz contiguous spectrum in the frequency band 824-844 MHz paired with 869-889 MHz, which has been reserved for WLL services in the National Frequency Allocation Plan 2000. The paper also suggested that the frequency band 1710-1885 MHz used for operations of the Indian Air Force "should be fully vacated on a priority basis." "This band is too precious from the public telecoms services point of view as well as for the development of the Indian IT sector. The current fixed troposcatter links can be provided by a variety of radio and wire line technologies. For the Air Force to implement an alternative communications plan, funds shall be provided out of the license fees being collected by the Department of Telecommunications on priority under a time bound project," the paper suggested. As for the allocation of spectrum to cellular operators, the paper said 6.2 MHz should be given to the fourth cellular operator in each telecoms "circle," and the remainder on a "strict need based" allocation. CTIA said the 6.2 MHz spectrum given to GSM operators presently is "totally inadequate" to meet their growth potential. "The capital expenditure depends on the minimum spectrum and the trend the world over is to go for chunks of 5 or 10 MHz. Smaller chunks, as given in India, increase the fragmentation as well as the capital expenditure. The attempt to avoid increased wasteful capital expenditure by the operators inevitably calls for more bandwidth, as allocation of smaller chunks of the spectrum is not an optimum solution," the paper said. It said once the footprint is covered, additional spectrum should be made available to existing operators to increase the capacity without building new sites. Cellular operators have often complained that their requests for additional spectrum have gone unheeded, and this often results in congestion in busy areas during peak hours.

To: Eric L who wrote (8659)	3/16/2001 11:38:33 AM
From: straight life	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196543

In re:"re: Some comments on forecasting sub growth. ...One of the reasons that TDMA jumped ahead of CDMA in YOY growth and became the "fastest growing" technology, is along the way CDMA actual subs exceeded TDMA actual subs. The law of large numbers kicked in. Hopefully, thats a short term anomaly...." Taking into account the rash of TDMA to GSM conversions, TDMA subscriber growth is about to hit a wall, especially when AWE switches over. JMHO.