Spurred by the momentum behind TD-LTE, Qualcomm decided to bid for an India license in order to promote the TDD standard and won spectrum in several (regional) circles.
Qualcomm has now named two partners for its Indian broadband wireless venture, Global Holding and Tulip Telecom, and intends to exit the venture once it has succeeded in establishing a beach-head for TD-LTE technology in country.
Four companies were recently awarded Wimax deployment contracts by BSNL – Teracom, Take Solutions, Adishwar India and Ampoules – and they'll share a portion of their revenues with the state-owned carrier.
But BSNL has clearly taken note of the LTE developments. The wide support which LTE has secured worldwide and the traction which it's gained in BNSL's own backyard seems to have triggered a major concern.
Should LTE vastly outpace Wimax in terms of deployments and technical evolution then Wimax operators would be at an economic and interoperability disadvantage. As a result, according to a report in The Economic Times, BSNL has made its franchises contractually commit to converting to LTE in the event that the other operators in the country support the standard.
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