CDMA to have 100 Million new subscribers
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 02:34 IST
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CDMA to have 100 Million new subscribers
Bangalore: The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has proposed that India will have 100 million new code division multiple access (CDMA) subscribers by the next two years if operators are provided sufficient spectrum. "We think the CDMA subscriber base will grow another 100 million in two years. Both Tata Tele Services and Reliance Communications have reiterated their strong commitment to CDMA. They have been clear that the decision to implement the global system of mobile communication (GSM) was really a matter of necessity because they do not have visibility as to when and what spectrum they will receive for CDMA. This situation needs to be corrected so that these operators can continue to grow wireless communications in this market. CDMA will flourish here in India if spectrum is provided," said Perry LaForge, Chairman of the CDG, as reported in Business Line. At present, there are around 100 million CDMA subscribers with Reliance Communications and Tata Teleboth of which are rolling out GSM services as well. Among the new players, only Sistema Shyam has chosen to adopt the CDMA technology. Also, more number of operators are heading towards offering GSM-based mobile services in India. However to maintain this growth of CDMA technology, the mobile operators need to have adequate spectrum to pursue competition with their GSM counterparts. Attributing the rapid growth of CDMA than GSM, Laforge said, "With high-speed wireless Internet access now a reality in CDMA and with advanced wireless broadband services such as Reliance's Broadband Netconnect+ and Photon Plus Services offered by Tatas, we see operators continuing to offer more devices, more services while improving their average revenue per subscriber. In many cases, the top wireless broadband operators in the world, in terms of performance, are CDMA operators. Examples include KDDI and Verizon. We believe this will continue to fuel CDMA growth here in India."

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