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‘Fixedline infrastructure can never deliver broadband across India’ says GSMA Director
TT Correspondent |  New Delhi |  25 Jun 2009

Ans: With regards to individual person, it’s a tough thing to say because we don’t really know what the prices are really going to be. Lets be honest, there is no service out there today available in the community. I don’t yet know what the prices are going to be. I have a fair idea that the ARPU rate in India is low as compared to other countries. So the idea that rural villagers can spend much more on broadband may not be the case. We have a fair idea about what h

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with the spectrum constraint, it will be challenging to take forward standalone mobile broadband. It may be conversions of fix-and-mobile network elements - is the way fwd
Posted By :- Sushil Malani
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Yes but if we look at the fixed line infratsructure across India it is limited, particularly in rural areas and the so called last mile access. If you take the example of Australia even here in a wealthy well developed country over 7M high speed broadband connections are provided to provide rural areas broadband access over mobile infrastructure. Spectrum should be made available and reasonably priced to support Indian Government objectives in providing broadband everywhere.
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