October 1 being the last date for applying for UASL (Unified Access Services Licensing) for pan-India operations, DOT (Department of Telecommunications) have got 400 applications in all.
Almost all major Real Estate players(DLF,Omaxe etc.,) are in the fray.Probably to fight out for the virtual real estate. AT & T have lined with Mahindras for their second stint after leaving Indian Telecom market & IDEA cellular in 2004. Each of these players would require to pay 1500 crores as licensing fees once they got approval.
DOT is also in discussions with Defence Department for spectrum vacation, and they are also mulling for an seperate entity for spectrum allocation among the various players.
Why is there sudden rush? The mobile subscriber market is about to grow to 500million individual users. The potential market these many subscribers pose is humongous. Everybody wants to have a share of this huge pie.
I certainly love competition leading into so much of variety of plans and features.
With all this good information, we have another one too. Bharti Airtel have become the 10 largest Telecom operator in the world with around 50million customers. They are having big plans for future expansion,
- covering 96% of the Indian population.
- Launching IPTV in the near future.
- Mobile Gaming
- Voice Website (Under development.. R & D)
- Rolling out operations in Sri Lanka.
Finally branching out to Retail too, Time to rejoice for Bharti Investors.
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