Everyone is very much optimistic about growth in data market, the next wave of telecommunications. It is saying data is the future. But on my personal take data demand is already high but it is yet to take off as we are waiting to see the price barrier to be broken down.

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Recently I had to visit three stores in single day – Reliance World, Tata Docomo Store and a common retailer store. I find everywhere people are queuing up queries on the wireless broadband, unlimited plans & the hidden conditions of them and other stuffs.

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4G/LTE can bring that much-awaited broadband revolution, but it totally depends on the operators as well as government. With the high priced auctions operators cannot roll out wireless broadband with cheap tariff.

In India situation of wired broadband is very poor. In developed countries wired broadband over DSL or cable or fiber is available on almost every homes, and people know about WiFi to share that connection over multiple devices. As a result on these regions people consume lesser data on mobile networks. While developed countries have computers in most houses, here in India a common man goes online for first time over his mobile devices. So people in India will consume more data on mobile networks. Apart from device issues, India’s broadband coverage is poor. LTE can be best alternative to provide last mile connectivity/FTTH.

BSNL is not the answer to India’s broadband need. BSNL is torn up with government policies, red tapes, employee politics and competition from private players put it into losses. Already BSNL has planned to surrender its BWA spectrum on 2600 MHz band. That’s is a good decision as 2600MHz is not an economical band, rather BSNL must procure 700MHz band spectrum for BWA in coming days. BSNL is offering wireless broadband over 3G/HSPA and CDMA EVDO-RevA; but both of networks are either poor in quality or coverage due to no expansion of services and poor maintenance.