3G/4G – What/When?

By Arsalan Mir | October 13, 2009 | 5 Comments

We have been debating a lot on 3G here, its upgrade paths and benefits. We also looked at the other side of the picture, how we can grow on our data services. At once it seemed that the 3G license was just on the edge with PTA conducting workshop on it and promising to support the technology. Now its almost a year now, nothing have happened and the licenses are still not auctioned.

We very well know that with technology things change rapidly. I just read few days ago that AT&T have changed their road map, and now they will focus on 4G. They tend to bypass the HSPA+ (an upgrade version of HSDPA) and be more aggressive on LTE plans.

When the world is racing for 3G and 4G, what are we doing? What will we follow? When will we follow?

I see the current state of industry being in an equilibrium, only an introduction of new technology can make way for growth in it. In conclusion of my Final Year Project on Evolution towards HSDPA, I proposed that we are already late for 3G as it has been introduced in the rest of the world, including a few of our neighbors including India. If  PTA is unable to auction 3G licenses within the next four to five months, I would suggest they should then focus themselves on LTE technologies and start planning for LTE to keep up with the latest trends in the telecommunication industry worldwide.

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