I have been away for quite sometime. But, the action in India's telecom sector continues unabated. I shall be a lot more regular from now on.
Anyway a quick recap:
* The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) received 121 applications for starting mobile services from nine new players.
* It has allocated spectrum to Reliance Communications to start GSM services
* Bharti and Reliance Communications have spun out their tower companies as separate entities
* Among the new players in the mobile race are real estate major Unitech, electronics leader Videocon, Shyam Telelink in collaboration with Russia's Sistema
* However, there is no clarity on when these licence holders will be allocated spectrum
* There is no news on the auction of 3G spectrum
* Thanks to over 8 million new subscribers being added every month for the past three months, tele-density is within striking distance of 25%
