3G is not just about TV dude There are ppl who badly need internet on the go and current gprs and edge speeds are pathetic

mr gangadhar, talk practical, dont be a bookworm, 3G doesnt solely stand for mobile televiewing, it features video conferencing, video calling, most importantly high speed data access, and many more features. what is spectrum?? not a natural resource, will not diminish on usage. and absolutely not a national heritage. mr raja is being driven by beureaucrats. i think he is tech-illeterate. ministers are made according to compromises, vote banks, political diversifications. not by their abilities.

If you don't know what you're talking why don't you just shut up..!!!!.... Spectrum isn't petroleum. And what do you propose to do with spectrum if you don't intend to use it? And by renting it, you're just creating more opportunities for corruption, red tape etc. Everybody wants 3G. Nobody wants to lock up the airspace in the country and say "ITS OUR HERITAGE>>!!!". And like somebody said, 3G isn't just television. It's a technology. Do you have absolutely any idea how it can be applied and used? Do everybody a favour and go to Wikipedia before you shoot your mouth off. Off the top of my head, 3G can be used for broadband internet access, even to the remotest parts, and hence reducing the cost and effort put into laying cables, or by connecting remote place to the rest of the world, where laying cables isn't practical. Or significantly improving rural connectivity. More applicable to us - getting real high speed internet access - every techie's dream.

All the comments on my earlier blog are from non-technical usera who are so busy that they can not imagine lack of communication even while being mobile--either highly paid executives not wishing to loose a single second or just rich idle playboys. All in small number compared to the vast mass who want basic communication only. Once a radio frequency is used over the territory of India, it can not be used by any one else and so it is the nations permanent wealth because even aftter thousands of years of use it is still available. Video conferencing, is also television--viewing at a distance. Let decisions concerning technical matters be left to those who know the technology such as TRAI, and not Rajas.

instead of raja, Dayanidhi Maran was good as Telco. Minister. If he were the minister, 3G could have been implemented and launched in India.