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India ready for 4G by 2012
Amit Shrivastava
India is all set to move on from 3G to 4G, technically known as Long Term Evolution in mobile broadband, by 2012
(From L-R) - Mr. Shashi Dharan, Managing Director Bharat Exhibitions, Mr. Sujit Bakre, Head, 4G Business Development/Product Mgmt. APAC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Mr. Puneet Garg, Vice President - Networks, Bharti Airtel, Mr. Mallikarjuna Rao, CTO, Aircel Limited, Shri Rajan S Mathews, Director General, COAI, Shri J Gopal, Advisor, DOT, Govt. of India Mr. Adrian Scrase, Head of Mobile Competence Centre, 3GPP, Shri TR Dua, Vice Chairman, Global ICT Standardization Forum for India, Mr. Amaru Chavez Pujol, Group CTO, Etisalat, Dr. Lakshminath Reddy Dondeti, Director, Engineering - Technical Standards, Qualcomm India, Mr. Kunal Bajaj, Managing Director, Analysys Mason (India)
Published on May 30, 2011
At LTE India 2011 international conference organized by Bharat Exhibitions, leading industry and technology experts said that Indian is all set to usher in era of 4G by 2012.
Experts at the event were unanimous that the LTE or 4G would be a smooth transition using core set up of the 2G/3G networks. They further emphasized at the conference that the transition will be 'dramatically matured'.
"With mass adoption, lowest cost per bit, highest capacity, best user experience and a true global standard, the world is stepping into 4G expecting 380 million LTE subscribers and 80 plus LTE networks by 2015," said Mr. Sujit Bakre, Nokia Siemens Networks head of 4G business development.
Already with globally 18 launches over 208 network commitments, the 100 Megabits per second LTE service was described by several experts and operator executives as providing a 'unique consumer experience'. Worldwide trials had already started in 2010.
"India could lead LTE-TD broadband technology developments," said Mr. Mallikarjuna Rao, chief technology officer of Aircel. The reason: "lot of competence in this area is returning to India from outside."
Bharti Airtel VP for networks Mr. Puneet Garg put 2012 as the year of "next step towards a broadband wireless revolution using LTE" that "will change the way people connect to communicate". Bharti Airtel was ready for this change over, he said.
Also, in China large scale trials had been started by China Mobile. In India Qualcomm and Huawei had set up a trial network in Hyderabad. "It is an opportunity for India to telescope change but the technology would support only four or five operators provided they have a pan India reach," according to Mr. Mallikarjuna Rao.
Mr. Amaru Chavez Pujol, Group CTO of Etisalat, a multi-continent operator company, defined LTE as a 'strong and well-defined data interface that promises a new reality'.
Making it truly global platform to conduct business, global majors engaged in wireless broadband technology - Nokia Siemens Networks, Qualcomm, ZTE, Huawei, Samsung, Alcatel-Lucent, Tekelec, Verint Systems, DragonWave HFCL & Tellabs participated in the event & shared their plans for India.
Key executives from telecom operators like Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Aircel, BSNL, MTNL, Reliance Communications, TATA Teleservices, Sistema Shyam, Etisalat, Videocon Telecommunications and Uninor had attended the conference.
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