According to Mr. A. Raja, India's Minister for Communications and IT, auction of spectrum for 3G services will finish by mid-Jan 2009. He also mentioned that BSNL and MTNL have already been given 3G and WiMAX spectrum and rollout of services is expected within the next couple of months.
In a related development, the CDMA Development Group (CDG) announced that it's holding discussions with the Indian Govt. for releasing spectrum for EVDO services in the 450 MHz band. As per the current plan, CDMA operators are expected to get 3G spectrum in the 800 MHz band only.
Finally, there is speculation that the roll-out norms for new operators might be relaxed.
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