Sri Lanka auctioned a block of airwaves to become the first country in South Asia to roll out a full nationwide mobile fourth-generation (4G) network, a top official said Friday.
Anusha Palpita, the Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, said he allocated the airwaves to Sri Lanka's largest cellular operator Dialog Axiata for $26.25 million on Thursday.
He said Dialog, the Sri Lanka unit of Malaysia's Axiata, will roll out a 4G mobile network
that will allow users to download content from the Internet at speeds
four to five times faster than the currently available 3G.
Are you irritated with the slow 2G plans and the high tariff plans by 3G ?? Here I have discussed the cheapest 4G plans by any company. It is cheaper than 3G tariffs, don't be amazed its true.
The Mumbai based Tikona company is all set to launch the cheapest 4G plans in Ahmedabad and Surat in 2013. The 4G service will be on 2 to 5 paisa per Mb plan. The 4G services will be rolled out using the TDD LTE
technology. Airtel is using the same technology for offering 4G
services in Kolkata, Bengaluru and Pune. Reliance Industries will also
use TDD LTE for rolling out its services.
Tikona would be targeting Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar
Pradesh (east and west) and Himachal Pradesh circles, where it acquired
mobile broadband airwaves for Rs 1,058 crore in 2010. "These tariffs
will disrupt the market. We will be able to do this since we're already
offering data plans at a price point of 2-5 paise per MB for broadband
on Wi-Fi which gives speeds of up to 10 Mbps," said Prakash Bajpai,
chief executive, Tikona Wireless.
Tikona will
not get into content side as that is being taken care by a separate
industry altogether and the company believes that no operator can match
that in terms of scale or variety. Ranade said that the company sees
itself as a data pipeline provider and would like to focus on that. It
is worth mentioning here that all the 4G service providers have to cover
100 per cent of the urban areas and 50 per cent of the rural areas in
their respective circles by 2015.
RIL will reportedly roll out
its 4G services starting from Delhi and Mumbai in 2013. Airtel is also
likely to launch its 4G services in Delhi, Mumbai and Chandigarh soon.
So here is a overview:
2-5 paisa per Mb
here are some calculations for it being the cheapest 4G plan.... let us take 5 paisa per Mb.
1Mb = 5paisa
1024Mb = 5120 paisa = Rs 51.2
1Gb = Rs 51.20
10Gb = Rs 512
So isn't it the cheapest plan than 3G, now we pay around Rs 900 for 5Gb in 3G. So Tikona is giving the cheapest 4G tariffs 10Gb at just Rs 512.
He said Dialog, the Sri Lanka unit of Malaysia's Axiata, will roll out a 4G mobile network
that will allow users to download content from the Internet at speeds
four to five times faster than the currently available 3G.
