3G Guidelines Coming Soon ?

There are reports that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will set out the 3G policy for India later this week. The Minister for Communications and IT, Mr. A. Raja is expected to make an announcement on Friday, August 1, 2008. Such speculation is not new and many such false dawns have occurred before. However, given that the UPA governmet survived the trust vote recently, it must surely be feeling emboldened to push through some long-pending policy initiatives before the next general election. More on this at GigaOm.