There needs to be a combined effort to look at the whole spectrum issues in toto and create a pressure group to make it more accountable. Can we envisage a community media consortium to take it up? -- Rajen Varada CEO Labournet 25/1-4,9th Cross, J.P. Nagar-2nd Phase, Bangalore-560076, INDIA Skype rajen.varada Tell +91-80-45504550 mail:[email protected] www.labournet.in -------------------------------------------
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Naimur Rahman <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Ram, > > > > Thanks for flagging this. I think CR community should make a strong > advocacy effort against such rampant commercialisation of finite resources – > and especially when spectrum shortage is cited for limited radio licenses. > Would CRF work with larger civil society to take forward this struggle? > > > > Naimur > > > > > > ------ > > Naimur Rahman > > Director, OneWorld South Asia > > Managing Director, OneWorld Foundation India > > President, Fundación GKP (Global Knowledge Partnership) > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *N.Ramakrishnan > *Sent:* 12 May 2011 10:08 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [cr-india] Financial Express article: Next on the block: 4G > mobilespectrum > > > > Makes you kind of wonder what shortage of spectrum actually means, doesn't > it? Since just about everybody and his uncleseems to be sitting on a stash > of spectrum. > Ram > > > -- > > N.Ramakrishnan > > > > Director of Projects > > Ideosync Media Combine > > 177, Ashoka Enclave III > > Sector 35, Faridabad - 121 003 > > Haryana - India > > > > Tel: +91-0129-4131883/4064883/4065883/6510156 > > Mobile: +91-9810273883 > > Web: www.ideosyncmedia.org > > > ********** > *Next on the block: 4G mobile spectrum* > > Ashish Sinha, Rishi Raj > > > > Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 0122 hrs IST > > *Tags:* 4G Mobile > Spectrum<http://www.financialexpress.com/gsearch.php?cx=partner-pub-9517772455344405:x8r0lv-hydo&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=4G%20mobile%20spectrum&sa=Search#1113&type=financialexpress>| > I&B > Ministry Vacate > Spectrum<http://www.financialexpress.com/gsearch.php?cx=partner-pub-9517772455344405:x8r0lv-hydo&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%20I&B%20ministry%20vacate%20spectrum&sa=Search#1113&type=financialexpress>| > 4G > Data > Services<http://www.financialexpress.com/gsearch.php?cx=partner-pub-9517772455344405:x8r0lv-hydo&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%204G%20data%20services&sa=Search#1113&type=financialexpress> > > > > > <http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=xa-4ce654d665deb334> > > *New Delhi**:* India has taken a step closer to high-speed 4G data > services, with the Union I&B ministry agreeing to vacate 700 MHz band > spectrum that is currently under the control of the ministry. Historically, > this band is used gobally for broadcast services but is increasingly being > allocated to mobile operators for providing 4G telecom services. > > This follows a long sparring between the telecom department and the I&B > ministry for the control over this band. The I&B ministry was not willing to > vacate this band. However, revenue considerations seem to have worked in > favour of the the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). > > The lower the spectrum band, the greater its efficiency and consequently, > greater the revenues it can fetch. Last April, the government had auctioned > 2.3 GHz spectrum for broadband wireless access, raking in R38,543 crore. > Auctioning the 700 MHz spectrum for 4G services could potentially earn much > more. I&B ministry vacating the spectrum will open it for auctions by DoT. > > The I&B ministry did not want to vacate the 700 MHz band since it is > allotted to Doordarshan and also because it wants to start mobile TV > services. However, sources said that the I&B ministry has constituted a > sub-committee to review the 700 MHz band and take a re-look at the demands > of Doordarshan and the feasibility of freeing it for broadband services by > mobile operators. > > “The spectrum requirements of Doordarshan and mobile TV will be reviewed as > part of the exercise to establish exactly how much spectrum can be freed up > for other essential requirements,” a senior Doordarshan official told FE. > > The I&B ministry has envisaged 96 MHz of spectrum allocation for mobile TV > services, a policy that is still far from final. “The plan was to allocate 8 > MHz spectrum to six mobile operators (4 private, 2 Doordarshan) each in a > city after auctioning. However, there is an option of reducing this number > by two (1 private, 1 Doordarshan), which will free up 32 MHz. Finding > another block of 8 MHz will not be difficult,” a source in the government > said. > > Earlier this year, Doordarshan had conducted an internal audit of its > current and future spectrum requirements and informed the I&B ministry of > requirements inclusive of the 96 MHz which will be reserved for mobile TV > services. > > ********* > > > > > Join the Community Radio Forum. For membership details, please go to > www.crforum.in >
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