Recently the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) was requested by CDMA operators to put a stop on the auction of spectrum for the much awaited third generation (3G) services, till the time there is no clarification on some vital issues on charges of the spectrum.
The Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (Auspi) sent a letter to the Telecom Secretary Siddhartha Behura, in which they briefed, “It is not possible to segregate the revenues earned through 2G services from that of 3G services. Auspi reasons that such bifurcation provides an arbitrage for operators to lower spectrum charges.”
A committee has been formed by Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in order to separate the income made by the 2G and the 3G services. Just two days before, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had expressed its concerns regarding the same, and DoT came up with this committee well in time.
The function of the committee would be to find out a way or mechanism to segregate the revenues of 2G and 3G for a service provider, once the 3G services commence with its operations. Other than this, components like voice and data would also be studied along with roaming that will constitute a part of 3G revenues.
Sterlite Technologies, a leading global provider of wire and cable solutions for the power and telecom industry, has pocketed a contract worth Rs 24 crore from Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL), to supply fiber optic cables with the highest density ever to be deployed in the country.
Under the arrangement, the company would supply ribbon-liter 288F ribbon fiber optic cables to BSNL, which BSNL would initially install at nearly 100 city sites across the country. This is the first time ever that, fiber optic cables higher than 144F would be deployed in India.
Reliance Communications (RCom), part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has finally launched its GSM services across major cities in the country.
The firm has initially launched the service in Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Punjab, Bangalore and Chennai.
According to sources, the company has provided GSM phones to its employees for testing the service installed over 2,500 towers in Mumbai and Delhi circles and invested around Rs 800 crore each for the purpose.
Sterlite Technologies, a leading global provider of wire and cable solutions for the power and telecom industry, has pocketed a contract worth Rs 24 crore from Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL), to supply fiber optic cables with the highest density ever to be deployed in the country. 
Reliance Communications (RCom), part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has finally launched its GSM services across major cities in the country. 
