India’s BWA Auction Ends, Infotel is Pan-India Winner
India’s auction for Auction for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) licence ended today with bids for pan-India licence touching Rs 12,850 crore with the government clocking a total revenue of Rs.38,543.31 crore.
According to the provisional results announced by Department of Telecommunications (DoT) telecom biggies Vodafone Essar, Idea Cellular Tata Communication and Reliance Wimax Ltd have opted out of the race. The Infotel Broadband Services has won bid for all the 22 circles while Aircel won 8, Bharti Airtel and Qualcomm won in 4 circles, Tikona in 5 and Augere 1 circle.
The State operators BSNL and MTNL, which have already been given spectrum, ahead of the private players, will have to pay the equivalent of the winning bid in each service area.
According to the International Telecommunication Union, BWA can deliver download speed of 100 mbps to 1 gbps. However till date download speed of 70 mbps have been achieved in lab condition.
Leading telecom players Bharti Airtel, Reliance Wimax Ltd, Idea Cellular, Aircel, Augere Mauritius, Qualcomm, Infotel Broadband Services, Spice Internet Service Provider, Tata Communications, Tikona Digital Networks and Vodafone Essar participated in the BWA auction to acquire the two slots on offer.
The List of BWA Winners (Private Operators )-:
| Telecom Circle | Successful Operator | Winning Price (Rs crore) |
| Delhi | Infotel and Qualcomm | 2,241.02 |
| Mumbai | Infotel and Qualcomm | 2,292.95 |
| Maharashtra- Goa | Bharti Airtel and Infotel | 915.64 |
| Gujarat | Infotel and Tikona | 613.85 |
| Andhra Pradesh | Aircel and Infotel | 1,059.12 |
| Karnataka | Infotel and Bharti Airtel | 1,543.25 |
| Tamil Nadu | Infotel and Aircel | 2,069.45 |
| Kolkata | Infotel and Bharti Airtel | 523.20 |
| Kerala | Infotel and Qualcomm | 258.67 |
| Punjab | Bhari Airtel and Infotel | 332.27 |
| Haryana | Infotel and Qualcomm | 119.90 |
| UP East | Tikona and Infotel | 142.50 |
| UP West | Tikona and Infotel | 183.87 |
| Rajasthan | Tikona and Infotel | 97.32 |
| Madhya
Pradesh |
Augere and Infotel | 124.66 |
| West Bengal | Infotel and Aircel | 70.97 |
| Himachal Pradesh | Tikona and Infotel | 20.66 |
| Bihar | Infotel and Aircel | 99.28 |
| Orissa | Aircel and Infortel | 63.63 |
| Assam | Aircel and Infortel | 33.02 |
| North East | Infotel and Aircel | 21.27 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Aircel and Infotel | 21.27 |
@Wimax expert
what do you believe is the next step for Tata Com. I too thought that Tata com would be one of the aggressive bidders given that they have invested quite heavily for the infrastructure and as you mentioned already providing the services??
@jazz
I would rather bring your attention to the present choice of major players here. I am not opposed to Wimax either. I just thought competition is good, as only when cdma players came voice rates began to drop.
From internet
The only winner of spectrum pan-india, Reliance Industries backed Infotel, has announced that it is betting on LTE. US based Qualcomm, also won spectrum in India will also roll-out an LTE network. Airtel, Aircel and RelianceComm are likely to use LTE as well, because it offers a sinlge evolution path for both CDMA and GSM.
India will prove to be a key market for LTE as a technology, because what happenes in India could affect the overall growth of LTE as a technology.
I would rather bring your attention to the present choice of major players here. I am not opposed to Wimax either. I just thought competition is good, as only when cdma players came voice rates began to drop.
I don’t think so LTE will rock in india….sure it will take some time.. LTE main focus for DATA…if we speak about data,data usage is very less…still Indian prices are More for data usage…. we will see…