3G auction wont be delayed ,auction on Feb 13 and services to start by Sep 1

The country’s third-generation wireless spectrum auction for spectrum sale will start on February 12 and services would start from September 1 this year, reports CNBC-TV18 quoting sources.From today the 3G draft of the notice inviting bids or applications will be issued by the ministry.

Paying fees will be in two phases for the winning bidders . The phase 1 winning bidders make a payment of 25% of the bid amount within five days after the auction and the balance payment within 15 days. The government plans to auction three 3G slots nationwide.

The 3G auction fund, the ministry says, may be a little less than Rs 35,000 crore.

Spectrum wil be assigned within 15 days from the date of payment, the government intends to add more 3G slot in January 2013.


The final date for applications will be received by Jan25th, the pre-qualification for bidders will takes place on February 5. Notice inviting bids is likely to be issued by this week and would specify exact spectrum slots .

fifth generation - 5G wirreless ?

One of the features is that you will be able to smell the background of the other person on the phone. Say if someone is cooking something and he wants you to smell it, he will be able to do that. Other feature is that you can speak without enitting any voice. This could be used in case you are in Library (or in Exam Hall?) and you cannot speak out loudly. You will be able to communicate just by moving your mouth. Please note that all these features are at initial stage of research and is not viable long time to come.

5G should be a more intelligent technology that interconnects the entire world without limits.

IMT-Advanced = 4G = LTE-Advanced = 5G

The 3GPP TSG RAN workshop on IMT-Advanced was held (in the week after the RAN WG meetings) on April 7-8, 2008 in Shenzhen, China hosted by ZTE Corporations. The main conclusions from the workshop are:

* LTE Advanced shall be an evolution of LTE.
o LTE terminal shall be supported in LTE-advanced networks.
o An LTE-Advanced terminal can work in an LTE part of the network.
o Primary focus of LTE-Advanced is low mobility users.
* All requirements/targets in TR25.913 apply to LTE-Advanced.LTE-Advanced requirements shall fulfill IMT-Advanced requirements within the ITU-R time plan

* For LTE-Advanced:
o Same inter-RAT interworking capability with at least same performance as in LTE Release 8
o Intra-RAT handover performance shall be same or better than LTE Release 8
* As a way forward for LTE-Advanced it was agreed:
o TSG RAN email reflector for LTE-Advanced will be established (the new reflector is called 3GPP_TSG_RAN_LTE_ADVANCED and it is available since 21.04.2008)
§ Email discussions on LTE-Advanced requirements will be started on this reflector (moderator: Takehiro Nakamura, NTT DoCoMo, LTE-Advanced SI rapporteur).
o A new TR will be created (after the workshop it was decided to create TR 36.913 "Requirements for LTE-Advanced") to include LTE-Advanced requirements and updated by RAN WG meetings in May 2008 referring to structure of 25.913 and outcome of the workshop.(note: Allocation of the TR number 36.xyz was done after the workshop.)
o Review of the outcome of this workshop and kick-off of discussions about LTE-Advanced requirements and technical solutions in RAN WG meetings in May 2008 in Kansas City.The goal is to complete LTE-Advanced requirements at RAN #40 in Prague end of May 2008 according to agreed work plan (i.e. TR 36.913 will be provided to RAN #40).