{"id":438251,"date":"2010-03-17T09:15:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=106333"},"modified":"2010-03-17T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T13:15:28","slug":"qualcomm-will-bid-on-indian-spectrum-to-boost-mobile-broadband-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/438251","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm Will Bid on Indian Spectrum to Boost Mobile Broadband Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Qualcomm plans to bid for a chunk of spectrum in India’s upcoming 3G<\/a> auction, the chipmaker said today. Qualcomm is taking a page out of Google’s playbook — the search engine giant bid for spectrum in the U.S. but never had any plans to become a network operator. The San Diego-based chip maker doesn’t really want to be a\u00a0network operator nor does it want to deploy a 3G technology — it wants to jump-start demand for its 4G chips and meet India’s demand for mobile broadband. From its release:<\/p>\n

“Qualcomm has a history of participating in spectrum auctions to expedite the commercialization of new wireless technologies. By participating in India’s BWA spectrum auction, Qualcomm can foster the accelerated deployment of TD-LTE.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the chip firm wins a chunk of spectrum in the 2.3 GHz band, it will want to promote TD-LTE, a version of the fourth-generation wireless standard that uses less total spectrum in deployment. Qualcomm is also making the bet that India will want to skip quickly from a 3G to a 4G service, a bet China Mobile is also making with its upcoming TD-LTE <\/a>deployment.<\/p>\n

Each generation of mobile broadband technology adds more capabilities for data, which we here in the U.S. are already consuming at a network-crushing pace. <\/a>Bringing in LTE networks with more capacity will help with both speed and the total amount of data that can be transferred over the air. For cell-phone users in India, which has seen its 3G spectrum auctions delayed for years<\/a>, there had been talk of skipping 3G and hopping right to 4G services that could handle current and future demand<\/a>.<\/p>\n