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To: quartersawyer who wrote (41309)	7/5/2004 10:51:09 PM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 196952

India-- 14,000,000 adds/mo through December, according to EMC, which begs the question of spectrum for CDMA. ----------------- "According to global analyst EMC, India, currently ranked 13 in the world, will become the third-largest market for the mobile industry by December with around 117 million subscribers." telegraphindia.com ---------------- “The current allocation of spectrum is inadequate to serve the demand for voice services. The regulator should allocate adequate spectrum so that operators can provide a reasonable grade of service,” Qualcomm senior vice-president (technology) Charles E. Wheatley told The Telegraph. telegraphindia.com ---------------------- "The new battle is being fought completely in the courts of Trai and the government, and is about spectrum or the airwaves on which telecom signals travel to and from your phone..... The problem lies in the fact that the WiLL/CDMA firms are now arguing that even for their 2G operations they need spectrum in the 1900 MHz band as they’ve exhausted their existing allocation in the 800 band." business-standard.com ---------------------------------- "Nokia for instance, is already huge in India; the market leader recently reported revenue of Euro 1 billion in 2003 from India alone, which means that India is Nokia's sixth largest market in the world and the Finnish company isn't about to let others get a foothold without a fight. That's because "while most of mobile telephony's growth has occurred in China," said a recent Deutsche Bank white paper on wireless telephony called "Brilliant Past Bright Future", "India represents one of the most exciting growth opportunities for mobile." The paper adds, that with its billion plus people, India is the second most populous country on the planet, but has just 33 million wireless/mobile telephone subscribers. It is expected that the subscriber base will grow to 290 million by the end 2008 and 500 million by 2010. "This makes India one of the fastest-growing markets of this decade," Deutsche Bank said." upi.com