Comments on: WiMAX in India- Whom do you believe: press or Indian government official? http://viodi.com/2008/03/23/wimax-in-india-whom-do-you-believe-press-or-indian-government-official/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wimax-in-india-whom-do-you-believe-press-or-indian-government-official The Bridge Between the Heartland and Hollywood Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Alan Weissberger http://viodi.com/2008/03/23/wimax-in-india-whom-do-you-believe-press-or-indian-government-official/comment-page-1/#comment-322 Alan Weissberger Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:31:29 +0000 http://viodi.com/2008/03/23/wimax-in-india-whom-do-you-believe-press-or-indian-government-official/#comment-322 Comments from my Indian colleagues who now live in the U.S. From Manish Gupta of Aperto Networks (leading WiMAX equipment vendor selling to emerging countries): "Bangalore and Delhi have certain places live on WiMAX network - w/ Tata. Reliance has some places in Mumbai and Bangalore. That's it for WiMAX compliant network / devices. Rest is proprietary." Basant Khaitan (colleague and friend for 35 years): I"n India , the industry is a few steps ahead of the reality and the government is a few steps behind! It sort of reminds me of the GOGO days in the US telecom industry 10 years ago!" Bipin Shah (who also attended the India IT Minister's talk last Friday): "From what I know, there is lot of hype in Tata's announcement. Until recently there was an issue of the WiMax band release in India because of some overlap with satelite communications. Knowing this, I know that 10 cities as claimed by Tatas are not on any WiMax network. There has been talk about that for Bangalore , Chnnai, Ahmedabad etc but to the best of my knowledge no place has any such installtion. So, in this case, believe the govt for now. Next year, could be a different story." Comments from my Indian colleagues who now live in the U.S.

From Manish Gupta of Aperto Networks (leading WiMAX equipment vendor selling to emerging countries):

“Bangalore and Delhi have certain places live on WiMAX network – w/ Tata. Reliance has some places in Mumbai and Bangalore. That’s it for WiMAX compliant network / devices. Rest is proprietary.”

Basant Khaitan (colleague and friend for 35 years):

I”n India , the industry is a few steps ahead of the reality and the government is a few steps behind! It sort of reminds me of the GOGO days in the US telecom industry 10 years ago!”

Bipin Shah (who also attended the India IT Minister’s talk last Friday):

“From what I know, there is lot of hype in Tata’s announcement. Until recently there was an issue of the WiMax band release in India because of some overlap with satelite communications. Knowing this, I know that 10 cities as claimed by Tatas are not on any WiMax network. There has been talk about that for Bangalore , Chnnai, Ahmedabad etc but to the best of my knowledge no place has any such installtion.
So, in this case, believe the govt for now. Next year, could be a different story.”

]]> By: Alan Weissberger http://viodi.com/2008/03/23/wimax-in-india-whom-do-you-believe-press-or-indian-government-official/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Alan Weissberger Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:02:02 +0000 http://viodi.com/2008/03/23/wimax-in-india-whom-do-you-believe-press-or-indian-government-official/#comment-319 I find it interesting that Reliance Communications Group of India choses to expand its WiMAX deployments outside of its home country. They have set up WiMax networks in 18 cities in India, where Tata Communications and state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam are the other major players. Now they are planning to set up WiMax networks across 50 countries in the next three years to move into the global telecommunication market. It indicates to me that they believe there is greater WiMAX potential outside of India. Or perhaps, that they would face too much competition in their native land. http://www.businessstandard.com/search/storypage_new.php?leftnm=8&a... I find it interesting that Reliance Communications Group of India choses to expand its WiMAX deployments outside of its home country. They have set up WiMax networks in 18 cities in India, where Tata Communications and state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam are the other major players.

Now they are planning to set up WiMax networks across 50 countries in the next three years to move into the global telecommunication market. It indicates to me that they believe there is greater WiMAX potential outside of India. Or perhaps, that they would face too much competition in their native land.

http://www.businessstandard.com/search/storypage_new.php?leftnm=8&a...

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