After about a month's delay in roll-out, one of India’s most
popular service providers, Bharti Airtel may finally launch their broadband
wireless access (BWA), based on the 4G technology in Kolkata, tomorrow.
According to reports, the Telecom Minister, himself has been sent an invitation
to inaugurate the service and is hence expected to arrive at the function held
tomorrow. With the launch tentatively scheduled for tomorrow, Bharti Airtel
will invariably become the first service provider in the country to offer 4G
wireless services in Kolkata.
Delayed roughly by a month, owing to the minister's busy
schedule during the Parliament session, rumours of Airtel planning on launching
4G services had first come out in the open in October, last year and it was
only recently that a quote from the company's CEO - India and SAARC, Sanjay
Kapoor that brought things into perspective. In his statement, Kapoor stated
that stated that they would be launching LTE-TDD, this month. This was last
week. Early last month, there were also reports that were carried stating that
Airtel appointed Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for building and operating
network in the Maharashtra circle using one of the 4G technologies, TD-LTE.
Reports now state that Airtel has also introduced Chinese telecom equipment
maker ZTE to the mix who would take care of the planning, designing, and
deployment aspect of the service provider's BWA network in Kolkata.
With the 4G wireless services in the country, reports add
that users will be able to enjoy download speeds of around 100 Megabits per
second on the move, which can go up to 1 Gigabits per second, when at a fixed
location. Airtel, reportedly won BWA spectrum in 2010 for four telecom circles,
namely Kolkata, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Punjab after paying Rs.3,314.36
crores.
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