In the recent past, the 3G technology has been a bit controversial in India and I think the Telecom Operators must really be thinking that Does it really worth it?
Service Providers including the biggies like Vodafone, Idea and Airtel have entered into mutual-roaming agreements within themselves. And, someone complained about the entire scenario to the TRAI, who issued a notice to all of them to stop doing the same.
The operators in return reported that all this which they were doing was well totally in their rights, with second largest operator Vodafone threatening TRAI to give back their 3G license and Airtel reporting that this would be a policy breach.
The Secretary of DoT (Department of Telecom) Mr. R Chandrasekhar said:
The decision has been taken that this (3G roaming pacts) is in violation of terms and conditions of the licence, DoT will be issuing notices asking them (mobile operators) to stop their service with immediate effect. But on penalty, no decision has been taken yet.
If we consider this as the final decision, it would mean that single provider can give their customers a service of Nation Wide 3G and ofcourse it will be a big inconvenience for almost all. The only telecom-providers who are in a state of giving all their users a nationwide 3G now, are government owned MTNL and BSNL.
A lot of telecom industry leaders like Sunil Mittal (Bharti Airtel) and Kumar Mangalarm Birla(Idea Cellular) have already voiced their strong opposition to this. The World-wide head of Vodafone Telecom, Vittorio Colao had a personal meeting with PM Manmohan Singh in November to implement a stable Telecom Policy.
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