It is almost four years since the government licensed Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) in India, yet it feels as though almost nothing much has happened. The BWA auctions came right after the nation’s famed 3G auctions; together, they created a stir in the Indian telecom market around the coming data revolution which would channel our economy and its citizens into
a new era of social and economic empowerment.
Yet, apart from rollouts in a small number of Indian cities, BWA does not seem to have created much visible impact.
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(This story appears in the 10 January, 2014 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
Superb material , was looking for this since long time. You have really made good effort in anaylysing the current situation. What I feel is when we talk about there is unexplored demand for high speed fixed data and mobile data there needs to be economical viability for this. Theres should be sound business case, whole ecosystem to make use of this high speed data. Unless Operator come up with that ecosystem innnovative applications, devices, services at reasonably low cost Indian people will not accept in big way. One small class who is fond of new gadgets and technology will go for it not but not a big economic class unless they see high value in it.
on Jan 10, 2014Great information, wish to see the latest technologies reach the end users in India as soon as possible.
on Jan 9, 2014