Adding 10 million new subscribers every month, India, the second largest mobile market in the world, is likely to take its mobile base to 500 million by the year 2010, with the introduction of 3G spectrum. The country is currently having 320 million mobile phone subscribers.
"3G bid document has been finalized and broad guidelines have already been issued. The allotment of spectrum has been planned through simultaneous ascending e-auction process. There would also be a pre-bid conference between the industry and the Government," said Siddhartha Behura, Secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
The 3G auction is scheduled to be held in January 2009 by the independent auctioneer, N.M. Rothschild, and the process of allotment of spectrum will be completed before February 2009. "Bulk of the growth in telephone connections comes from the mobile platform..." Behura pointed out during the Industry Summit on '3G: The Next Wave', at Kochi.
Source: http://www.siliconindia.com/
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