Indian WiMAX Spectrum Winners can offer voice, says DoT - August 29, 2008
 
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has proposed that winners in the upcoming licence auctions for broadband wireless access (BWA) - read mobile WiMAX - will be able to offer voice as well as data services.
But the dispensation comes at a price. Instead of [...]

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Having just analyzed recent reports from telecom companies, we conclude that the telecom recession/ depression continues. Revenues are falling way short of expectation, growth is limited to mobile data, and profits are minuscule with the exception of Verizon (VZ). But even at VZ, the growth seems to be coming almost entirely from new wireless data [...]

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July 15, 2008 update:  More disputes threaten to delay India’s WiMAX goldrush, by Caroline Gabriel
India is absolutely critical to the fortunes of WiMAX, and the level of uptake in the huge nation will help decide how prominent a position 802.16e takes in the overall wireless landscape in the next decade. There are many reasons for [...]

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