least $1.1 Billion Through 3G and 4G Will Earn at The Upcoming Spectrum Auction

Least $1.1 billion through 3G and 4G will Earn at the upcoming Spectrum auction.On Saturday Dr Ismail Shah said while briefing newsmen about the process of upcoming auction in Islamabad “Selling spectrum of 50 MHZs through auctioning of five licenses, the revenue can go beyond $1.3 billion”

“I can guarantee that this Pakistan will earn at least $1.1 billion with upcoming auction of 3G and 4G “

Dr. Shah said for 3G auctions the spectrum lot was distributed into four lots including 10MHz, 5 MHz, 5MGHz and 10MGHz. Every bidding party will apply for 10MGHz and then can also apply for 5 MHz in this process.The bidding process might continue for two days in Pakistan as in India it had continued for more than 30 days because it was done on regional basis.

3G telecommunication networks support services that provide an information transfer rate of at least 200 kbit/s. Later 3G releases, often denoted 3.5G and 3.75G, also provide mobile broadband access of several Mbit/s to smartphones and mobile modems in laptop computers. This ensures it can be applied to wireless voice telephony, mobile Internet access, fixed wireless Internet access, video calls and mobile TV technologies.

He said that after detailed deliberations, method of auction was put in place. This was keeping in view experience gained after the Bangladesh where 3G license was given at the price of $100 million.A new generation of cellular standards has appeared approximately every tenth year since 1G systems were introduced in 1981/1982. Each generation is characterized by new frequency bands, higher data rates and non–backward-compatible transmission technology. The first 3G networks were introduced in 1998 and fourth generation “4G” networks in 2008.

Flanked by the whole team of telecom regulators, the Chairman PTA said that they had devised proper security apparatus to defend against any attack by hackers on the web-based auction process.

But in the case of Pakistan’s offered 50MHz, he said, there would be no collusion among the bidding parties because their demand was excess to the supply.

Dr. Shah added, if there would have been no increased demand then the stage of bidding could not have come.The 4G equipments and deployment of network, Dr Shah said, was expensive and that’s why its base price was less than the price of 3G.

On a question regarding demands of bidding cellular operators, the Chairman PTA said that they did not accept demands of operators for relaxing payments terms by extending it up to 15 to 20 years.The PTA, Dr Shah said, had bound the winning bidders to pay 50 percent amount upfront while remaining 50 percent would be paid in five years.In order to ensure quality of services after auction of 3G and 4G, he said that the PTA purchased a Nino Software for monitoring performance with the objective to improve quality.