India broadband

India will experience the greatest ever internet invasion ever in the next couple of years with wimax service by bsnl wimax covering the entire nation under its new plans which intend to cover the whole country under the wimax umbrella in the next year and a half. Its not just bsnl wimax which is going to provide wimax services in India but there is a bunch of service provider ready to roll out wimax service pretty soon. The ones I know of are Reliance wimax, sify wimax, mtnl wimax and a few others which have plans in the pipeline and some of them are applying for licenses at the moment. Reliance wimax has already been launched in Bangalore and Pune with plans for a Mumbai launch any time soon.

In India the wired form of delivering internet connection has not seen a lot of success mainly due to poor infrastructure unlike China where things are better planned for technology to come before hand.

I would really welcome this wimax intrusion in India internet market which will transform the lives of millions in the next two years.

   Bsnl the government run telecom company is planning on spending $750 million to roll out wimax on a very large scale which will cover the whole of India and will benefit the rural areas in a big way. The conventional wired broadband is not doing any good to the rural India as most of it still remains unconnected, Its just the gprs connections which are available in those areas which are very slow speed as we all know.

Bsnl wimax is going to bring a new broadband race in India with the whole of India capable of connecting to the internet without having to worry about cables or telephone lines.

Wimax is proposed to be launched in India and a number of other nations very soon and is soon going to be available across the globe making it the most widely used communication technology. In India wimax deployment is delayed due to the government of India’s pending decision on allocation of spectrum for commercial wimax services. Majority of spectrum which is worldwide used for wimax is being held up by the defence forces in India which is creating further delay as the defence forces are not ready to give up their frequencies which are not even being used for any purpose at all.

Nokia has announced the launch of their first ever wimax enabled phone which is scheduled to be launched in India in January 2008. The option of installing external applications and programmes will give it ability to be used for programmes like skype and other voip applications hence bringing down the cost of mobile communication down substantially. I am hoping that the phone be priced very aggressively for it to be affordable in India.

Wimax connections in India are expected to touch the 21 million mark by 2014 as per forecasts and most operators are now expected their large scale wimax operations in 2008. Reliance wimax is already operational at a few places in India including Bangalore and Pune and is planning a large scale deployment in the next year. India looks all set to become one of the largest wimax markets in the world although Pakistan has left India far behind for the time being but by next year India will probably have the largest number of wimax connections in the world. I am all excited about wireless broadband being available in Delhi by next year and with that the freedom of being anywhere in Delhi and being able to do my work from my car even while traveling as it used to be a pain with gprs which takes ages to load a page.

Its been almost a year since we have been hearing news about wimax being launched any day now and this and that but I still dont see this happening in the near futre. Wimax would make so many lives easier by letting us all stay connected on the move. Wimax is also being delayed by the gsm lobby which is prety strong here in India due to the fact that wimax phones will kill gsm alltogether by allowing everyone to call using wimax phones via voip and due to this gsm lobby is try their best to put more and more hurdles in the way of wimax as they will loose billions of dollars which they have invested over the years all across India.

Bsnl is going to launch thier first ever cdma services in Calcutta next month.Earlier bsnl only had WLL services but now cdma technology will be used in calcutta and will provide high speed internet access to any one who subscribes for it.BSNL is also doing trials of the new wimax technology at ten locations across the nation which are said to have been very succesful.BSNL is all set to launch thier wimax internet services across the nation but is waiting for the government to decide on the allocation of spectrum for wimax operations.

         I have been a fan of wimax technology ever since I found out about it about a year ago and have always been looking farward to get a wimax connection.I have been in India for the last six months and the only reason I some times miss UK is the 10mbps cable internet connection I have there, Now that I have hopes of soon getting a wimax connection here in Newdelhi which hopefully will be more then atleast 2mbps or may be upto 75mbps as some companies plan.

Bsnl has been running wimax trials across the country at ten different locations which they say have been very succesful and plan to roll out commercial wimax connections some time later this year with prices at par with thier adsl offerings.

For NewDelhi wimax would be an ideal solution as 80% of Delhi is so unorganised that no other mode of internet connectivity can beat the ease of wimax which doesnt need any wires.The population density also makes it more lucrative for wimax deployment as very few towers will be able to cover the whole of Delhi and the cost of infrastructure per connection will go down considerably which will hopefully be passed on to the consumer.

In the next article I will write about details of wimax technology and how it works including details about the equipment used to deliver and recieve data.

I am eagerly waiting for wimax, are you?  If you have any comments please feel free to share with all of us.

Nokia has announced that they will launch thier first ever wimax enabled mobile phone in India in January next year.Wimax is a very destructive technology in my opinion and a lot of things will vanish once wimax comes into use in India and the first thing to go for good will be the notorious Sify cable operator as those people who are stuck with sify due to non availibility of any other isp in thier area will be able to get wimax connection as soon as it is launched and will say goodbye to sify for ever due to thier extremely poor service topped with a very bad attitude from the cable operators who keep on passing the blame to sify and sify blames everything on the cable operator.