Why Should Airtel 4G Be AffordableAs everything goes perfect, Airtel will be the first operator in India to launch LTE based wireless broadband services in April, 2012.

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From our readers reaction we can say people are not very much excited with 4G roll out like they were during 3G roll out.

Reason is simple, 3G is not affordable and hence people are not betting high on 4G, at least not from Airtel 4G. Many readers of Telecomtalk think that 4G pricing may be at the same rate of 3G or can be higher. We believe it could not be happen. Let me explain.

First of all 4G pricing cannot be higher than current 3G pricing, because BWA players won the spectrum at much lower price than 3G operators.

Now on 4G there are some companies who have no 3G option. This list includes Reliance Infotel, Tikona, Augere and Qualcomm, while Airtel, Aircel, BSNL and MTNL have both 3G and 4G spectrum.

For 3G and 4G winners it is little tricky as if they comes with 4G tariffs lower than 3G tariff, they may lose the opportunity to make 3G business viable.Now why should Airtel keep the 4G tariff affordable to users?

If Kolkata is the choice for Airtel to kickstart 4G

Going by the words of our sources Airtel will choose Kolkata to headstart LTE based wireless broadband services. Kolkata is the metro which generate lowest ARPU compared to Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Even if we take this launch at Kolkata as pilot run, it would be interesting to see how Airtel can get proper feedback from Kolkata keep the tariff high.Sources say 4G operator wants to make next Broadband revolution in India and will be concentrating on those places where broadband penetration is very low.