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Airtel to bring 3G to India! |
Debu
Joined: Jan 15, 2003
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....well...sort of, i guess. Last night, i noticed that my 9500 was not making an EDGE connection to Mobile Office (others on banglore should have noticed this too), insted the regular (Plain Vanilla GPRS) connection. So when it took almost 20+ secs to open 'http://www.google.com/palm', which is usually even faster then the normal google, I decided to call customer care. On calling them up, the nice lady said that the EDGE services have been put offline for 24 hours as 3G-related testing is going on!!!!
Any thoughts? Comments? Excited whispers? |
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govigov
Joined: Jul 30, 2004
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From: Back home - Cochin
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Hey that is wonderful! :-) Not much 3g handsets around though. :-(
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Pradhika
Joined: Jan 11, 2005
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They are telling me such upgradations since last 7 months.
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whizkidd
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3G? But has the TRAI already issued licences for 3G operations? As far as i know, it hasn't.
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vineet_d
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TRAI have not issued any licence for 3G in India yet, but testing with proper infrastructure can be done as per the law, so I guess this is a great news.
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whizkidd
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So Airtel folks are confident that the GSM players will get the licences!?
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Debu
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Even so....its sort of, has been a surreal reality-dream since i've been quite young. Something which was a creation of someone 's imagination gone loose: talking to someone while you can see his face on the screen, reminds me of the sci-fi movies back in the 80's. Only this is'nt a big screen on the wall, like those movies, its these tiny things in our pocket that we call cellular phones, and finally I feel, the future has come.... the future in now. |
shyam335
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The biggest issue of 3g is coverage,there is already a no of problems in uk regarding coverage,i cant imagine the amount of problems in india (with such huge geographical area to cover) |
govigov
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I think it will be just limited to cities. (For the time being atleast.)
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sonam
Joined: Jan 12, 2005
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From: Bangalore, India
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3g! in india ??!!
i think this would come under excited whispers. |
shyam335
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I reckon itll take time (if at all it has to suceed) |
govigov
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Let it, the price of handsets should come down.
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sonam
Joined: Jan 12, 2005
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ideally i think that in order for 3g to work, the price of the handsets has to be between 8000-15000. But airtel, it seems has never been afraid of going into ventures which only a few can get into. Look at Blackberry, the hansets a very expensive and yet airtel is taking a risk on it. |
shyam335
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Blackberry is a much 'safer' risk imo |
Debu
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@shyam: i think 3g isn't exactly a risk, because, its got to come sooner or later, and if airtel is already preparing for it, it is probably foresight. It would mean that when it does finally roll out, they will have already an infrastructure ready for it. |
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Posted: 2005-01-12 08:15
