India 3G Licensing Dystocia state-owned enterprises first: BSNL has covered 318 cities

C114 Beijing time February 8 Morning News (SHANGMU) India's state-owned operator BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam) announced the deployment of 3G networks in 318 cities and plans to expand the network to cover 400 cities by the end of March,　　The coverage of 760 major cities throughout India is expected to be completed by September this year.　　BSNL realizes 318 city 3G coverage: User 856,000 In addition to announcing 3G coverage of 318 cities, BSNL added in a statement that its new network currently has 856,000 users.　　According to C114, in February 2009 BSNL first launched a 3G network in Chennai, which now distributes its network in all but the western part of India. At first, the coverage of the BSNL 3G service in the city is not high, the coverage of the city is a gradual improvement process. At the beginning of the 3G business, only 4 business-video calls, video conferencing, mobile TV and mobile broadband services were available, up to June BSNL users were only 40,000.　　July 20, it launched more services, such as video-on-demand, music downloads and online multiplayer games, and so on to attract new users.　　In August 2009, BSNL announced a 3G deployment plan covering 760 cities, estimated to cost 27 billion rupees (C114: then $570 million). In addition, since August 15, 2009, BSNL significantly reduced the 3G rate, providing a SIM card value of 59 rupees (then about 8.37 yuan), a prepaid business activation of 120 rupees (17 yuan), and a pay-as-you-go business activation of 225 rupees (31.9 yuan), and transfer from 2G to 3G at no cost.　　August 31, it also provides users with a one-month free unlimited video calling service since the date of the network. 3G licence "Dystocia": Another state-owned operator, BSNL by the state-run operator, announced at the December 2008 India Communications show that the country's first 3G business was launched by MTNL, India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, Manmohan Singh,　　Expansion is underway in Mumbai and Derry.　　India's two state-owned operators have received 3G spectrum licences prior to the official auction-the 2x5mhz spectrum in most of the 22 telecommunications service areas, and the mobile WiMAX spectrum licence. The government's latest announcement of the 3G Radio Spectrum Licence Auction is February 25, with 3 2x5mhz spectrum licences to be auctioned in each region.　　Pranab Mukherjee, India's finance minister, Pranab that the government expects funds to be spent on the March 31-year budget, so it will not be postponed, and that the telecoms minister, Raja (a. Raja), had a similar stance.　　However, the printing of 3G licences involved too many aspects, the "dystocia" situation can be opened is questionable. To facilitate the launch of the 3G licence, the Ministry of Finance also eased the auction financing restrictions, allowing overseas financing and agreeing to the successful bidder to make use of the rupee, greatly reducing the difficulty of bidding.