Wimax In India

India's Tata Communications , an emerging broadband wireless service provider, announced the countrywide rollout of a commercial WiMax network in India, the largest anywhere in the world of the high-speed, wireless broadband technology.

Already 10 Indian cities and 5,000 retail and business customers use the product, and by next year Tata will offer service in 115 cities nationwide. The folks at Tata can hardly contain their excitement. "WiMax is not experimental, it's oven-hot," says Tata's Prateek Pashine, in charge of the company's broadband and retail business.

Business Week called it "A WiMAX Breathrough in India."

But will this really be one of the world's largest WiMAX networks in the world?

The WiMAX forum has estimated that there will be over 133 million WiMAX users by 2012, a majority of which will consist of users of mobile WiMAX with portable devices.If one is to draw a parallel with the mobile networks, it is a good bet that a large number of users will come from BRIC countries.

The number of mobile phone users in India at over 250 million has exceeded those of US and is at the second place in the world, the first being China

We need to understand what comanies are planning to invest.Tata Communications, one of the largest telecommunications companies in India has announced its intention to invest $500 million in WiMAX technologies. Other players are Bharti Airtel, Sify, Aircel and BSNL which will collectively invest over $2 Billion.

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Viral Shah