The recent DoT solution, effectively eliminating the Internet service provider’s WiMax rates, brings back memories of India’s past flights of fantasy. Fantasy this time is the commitment of the cellular operator to use the 2.5 GHz spectrum for wireless broadband on WiMax at the national level, rather than accumulating it or hiding it for using 3G - if the DoT has its own way - they are both given.
This is another blow to the teeth for Indian Internet providers, as the nation still has a chastity belt around VoIP, which prohibits connecting to publicly available fixed and mobile telephony networks. Now drunk internet providers are barricaded by WiMax, which can only be a flight from logic.
If the DoT really wants to have a real, functional, meaningless, ubiquitous mobile truly “wireless broadband” service that allows the country to save a little on the shining India at the door, then the guy to deliver it without interest in outdated air interfaces promoting mobility.
Meaning, keep the cellular establishment away from WiMax, because they will do everything with it, but provide a hopeless ubiquitous mobile truly wireless broadband service that absorbs existing revenue and kills these hot dreams of 3G.
To be fair, it should be noted that our expenses and cellular friends (with the same difference) will use WiMax for transit traffic, which means that it is a great way to connect base stations to the mother ship, while customers continue to connect to these base stations via compared with existing investments in the cellular radio interface. They also use WiMax to provide fixed wireless local cycles (WLL) in homes in a different area, which are considered relatively uninteresting compared to the motherboard of cellular communications. Remember how Reliance sneaked into the cell under the guise of a WLL? It was cellular mobility. Reliance craved the boring old fixed wireless local loops. And this mobile WiMax mobility allows the cellular establishment to avoid access to the ISP and from the user.
Keeping this reality, I will probably do the same in cellular slippers. The Internet is synonymous with free, long-distance and fixed voice revenues. Thus, the only telecommunications real estate leaves money in a cell phone. You put a WiMax broadband eight-lane road on a cell phone, and this enclosed garden goes there.
No one is demanding that the cellular establishment be deprived of the spectrum for wireless broadband. Let them retain their existing 3.5 GHz chunks, excellent for WLL, but not losing 2.5 GHz or 2.3 GHz, which God has given to mobilize mobility along wireless broadband tracks. Assign this mission to Internet providers.
Globally, the cellular establishment has an incredible length to protect heritage investments and cut off on-air interfaces that give them more natural access to the Internet. There is no reason to think that their Indian head will do anything other than the prevailing one, since the early expenses are fully depreciated and go beyond. Consumers must pay for cellular over-the-air communications until book creation no longer qualifies for tithing. Until this happens, your mobile phone will not be allowed to access video, YouTube or VoIP.
3G is the answer of the cellular establishment to broadband, and they have already spent $ 150 billion worldwide on licenses and similar changes during deployment. Why would the Indian cell establishment go with anything else? Especially since the proven and proven equipment is available today to make 2G and 3G networks transparent. WiMax is a completely different technology, and while roaming is possible, it requires a completely different approach to ensuring what is essentially a data-oriented service - so far the cellular operator is not comfortable, unlike the provider for which very bread and butter. Just take a look at the curses shown in the mobility of WiMax by the August cellular lobby, says that their love for any technology other than 3G may not be everything.
Ergo, any spectrum available for true wireless broadband over 2.5 GHz or 700 MHz is least likely to be used by the cellular network to quickly create mobile access to non-cellular technologies such as WiMax. A sensible step forward would be for the mobile operator to focus on the proper deployment of 3G, while the larger Internet service providers are failing to deliver on the national WiMax.
The DoT, of course, does not see it in this way, and the lobby, which massages investments in inherited networks, is humorous, ensuring that they continue the growth trend, believing that not only more and more Indians will spend more time on the Internet, but we? do it through wider bandwidth and wireless.
Performing math, thicker bandwidth translates at least 3 to 5 Mbit / s of ubiquitous wireless broadband speeds to a mobile phone if we want to go beyond SMS messages or Blackberry and in real real Internet access to our mail servers on YouTube, Videoblogs, interactive games and movies.
Considering that the fastest 3G cellular speeds available for a cell phone today and forever, range from 500 to 700 very expensive kilobits / s, which means that we have a situation.
Almost everyone I see on the street in the Indian subway demonstrates modern cell phones, and therefore I suspect that such phones are enough to make my argument. What happened when you last used this WiFi feature? This is a safe bet that the wireless broadband track to your mobile phone is not used as long as you pay your cellular provider for checking your Blackberry email and downloading music files. As far as easy online access to YouTube or interactive TV and games, forget about it, because 3G or not 3G, cellular technology has no answers. Cell establishment has limited the user, and we are all guilty for this not to happen.
The reason you don’t use the WiFi function for a mobile phone is that it is unintentionally unfriendly, but mainly because you are connected to the cellular service because of your billion-dollar mobility function and that you and your phone are blocking - automatically. If the ubiquitous mobile true wireless broadband were to occur, you would be happy to use it instead of buying expensive airtime on corrupted cellular air interfaces that are poorly suited for downloading data, and you will not stop dropping bands, such as Blackberry.
Why is this all so important for a big, poor country like India? Because India today is in the same field as China when it comes to using the Internet. It's a good news. The sad part is that the majority of Indians still use dial-up access, and we are not close to being closer to China in the area of broadband penetration. Given the proven propensity for mobility and video, India, however, is fertile ground for the massive growth of mobile broadband Internet access. A DoT decision endorsing the campus that opposed this possibility did not help create a critical mass to complete our great friend hovering over the Himalayas. Today's protection is in economic growth, with the result that more 2.5 GHz blocks are required, rather than the stability of the South Block.
Earlier this year, the Malaysian regulator MCMC banned Malaysia's cellular network from participating in wireless broadband access. He had compelling reasons for his decision, since the mobile operators show absolutely nothing on past commitments on broadband wireless communications.
Further, Google considered the American cellular mastodon on behalf of Internet providers in the current period prior to the 2008 FCC auction for 700 MHz nationwide blocks. In early August of this year, the chairman of the FCC announced the ground rules for slugfest, and although Google’s request was not fully submitted, it was conceded to provide a third channel. allowing ISPs to fight, offering ubiquitous, true mobile broadband mobility in the face of the unruly cellular lobby. Here is the point. In America, the arguments put forward the question of whether the spectrum owner — Telco or ISP does not matter — should allow any and all devices to connect without restrictions and whether the owner has to offer the wholesale range to other providers. To the chagrin of cellular facilities, the FCC also works with wireless broadband supporters to test devices that will gain access to white (which means unused) space in the television broadcast spectrum. Instead of engaging in industry at such difficult levels, DoT makes Indian Internet providers spend time fighting just to get into the auction room.
we see that, although regulators everywhere have reason to suspect that the integrity of the DoT cellular establishment seems like a stellar look in faith and a touchingly monogamous intention.
The DoT may not understand (who am I kidding?) But their solution helps to provide a much needed new technology that does not interfere with the cellular institution to milk its networks that are at the same level, indefinitely.
The predominance of the benefits enjoyed by the actors means that a regulator or decision-making body like the DoT fails, even if it simply remains scrupulously neutral. Whether in the past in the EU, North America, Australia, Malaysia or India, we see that the final changes occur only through solutions that give a real advantage to newcomers and Internet providers. To be fair, TRAI's preliminary thinking on regulatory issues is only due to its inability to withstand DoT. Thus, the ball, which is in the DoT court, when he sees that he fails even if he is neutral to the number of clearly profitable operators, the frivolous attempt cannot hide his disgust.
However, despite the fact that DoT prefers to listen, a radical departure from the legacy can work wonders for both users and the industry. This includes the cellular establishment, which owns long-term interests, is poorly served by their current approach. Attracting Internet providers to participate in bidding equally rewards everyone. One can only hope that DoT will do what is best for the Indian consumer, and for this wonderful technology that allows us so much magic over the air.
