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To: foundation who wrote (32677)	2/20/2003 7:51:52 AM
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Trai recommendation on more cellular players soon PTI [ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2003 04:00:58 PM ] NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is soon expected to submit to the Department of Telecom, its recommendations on adding more players to the cellular sector, although it would take into account the issue of spectrum availibility. "We will shortly come out with the recommendations on adding more players in regard to the cellular sector. The recommendations would take into account the issue of availibility of spectrum," a senior Trai official told PTI on conditions of anonymity. The official, however, pointed out that the existing players in the Indian cellular sector had not received as much spectrum as made available internationally to operators for same level of subscriber base. "The consideration by Trai, while framing the recommendations, would be that if the spectrum is available, then the open competition in the sector cannot be stopped," the official said. At present there are up to four cellular operators in each circle in the country, although the issue of addition of players has surfaced time and again over the past few months. Last year, the then Communications and IT Minister Pramod Mahajan had said that he had visualised a scenario with fifth and sixth operator in the sector. economictimes.indiatimes.com

To: foundation who wrote (32677)	2/20/2003 3:46:14 PM
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"..there are 4.3 million GPRS subscribers... with 2.6 million in western Europe.." Sorry - just felt this deserves an encore. And the figures are from EMC - the GSM Association's own lap dog. This is 2 years after the service was launched... and this is about 1/2 of 1% of the GSM subscriber base. Let that sink in... and how it puts the lie to the GSM World Conference data charade. How can Europe expect that any other region would follow its lead? ========== UK slow to adopt 3G data services By Antony Savvas Feb 20 2003 The slow take-up of mobile phone data services suggests that third-generation (3G) technology will take time to be widely adopted, say experts. The availability of 3G services is still very limited, despite the first licences being awarded three years ago, analysts told delegates at this week?s 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. Just 0.01 per cent of the world's mobile phone subscribers are accessing services using WCDMA 3G technology, which is the system that all European countries will use, says Michele Scanlon, research director at wireless analyst EMC. Scanlon expects an increase in the availability of 3G networks through 2004, but says that poor take-up of existing data services is likely to cause further delay. Take-up of the widely-available GPRS technology is still slow, two years after it was launched. Scanlon says there are 4.3 million GPRS subscribers, with 2.6 million in western Europe - less than one per cent of the world's mobile phone users. Rupert Reid, consultant at analyst ARC Group, says data makes up about 10 per cent of operator revenues, but predicts it will be 2007 before sales reach 30 per cent.But he believes that more than half of all handsets will include multimedia messaging technology by the end of 2004. GSM remains the dominant connection technology for 70 per cent of subscribers, from a total base of 1.13 billion users. thefeature.com