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India
With more than 110 million users added in the first half of 2010, India’s mobile subscriber-base has grown to over 635 million. According the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) more than 94% of telephony services in India are passed over wireless networks. Currently, only the state-owned operators, BSNL and MTNL are offering 3G services. The recent auctions opened up spectrum for both 3G and 4G services in India.
Alcatel-Lucent is also in negotiations with Indian wireless companies to provide equipment for planned wireless broadband networks
India’s top mobile firm, Bharti Airtel, No. 2 Reliance Communications, Vodafone, Tata Teleservices and Idea Cellular spent a combined $23 billion for licenses in recent 3G and 4G spectrum auctions in the world’s fastest-growing cellular market.
Reliance Industries controlled by Mukesh Ambani, the fourth richest man in the world, returned to the telecom business with the $1 billion acquisition of Infotel Broadband, the only company to win a nationwide license for broadband wireless spectrum. Reliance plans to invest about $5 billion in the venture over the next two years.
There has been increasing pressure to offer 4G performance owing to the ever-growing capabilities of smartphones. When 3G was introduced there was no need for great haste in deploying compatible handsets, but mobile’s new more ambitious range of functions is driving demand to roll out 4G (and 4G smartphones) more quickly.
Samsung, Hauwei and ZTE are trying to convince Infotel that immediate Wimax deployment, with a similar timeline as 3G, makes more sense.
2G spectrum scam was also a part of delay in India, but India is now gearing up for huge deployment of wimax all across the country
China
China currently has over 720 million mobile cellurlar subscribers, more than twice as many as the United States. The world’s largest operator is China Mobile, with more than 500 million subscribers. As 3G and 4G become available in China, growth is expected to explode. The three Chinese operators have completed the bulk of their 3G roll-outs but uptake is still in the early stages.
China Unicom with W-CDMA, now has 7.56m 3G subs, less than 5% of its total of 156.96m mobile subscribers. China Mobile has only achieved 1.9%, partly because of problems with sourcing attractive devices for its TD-SCDMA network, while China Telecom, which is using CDMA2000 technology, now has 9.63% of its base using 3G.
Russia
Yota is a wireless broadband Internet company from Russia. Yota currently provides 4G Internet services to nearly 600,000 customers across five cities in Russia (Moscow, St Petersburg, Sochi, Krasnodar and Ufa), which have a total combined population of over 20 million people. Yota adds thousands of new customers every day and plans to expand its network to cover more than 25 million people by early 2011.
Yota recently announced plans to launch latest generation 4G networks in five new Russian cities plus Moscow and Saint-Petersburg in 2011. This will make Yota one of the world's largest 4G networks.