Microsoft should pay for spectrum to launch broadband in rural India
Nov10
on November 10, 2015
at 12:25 pm
Not everyone in India is elated about Microsoft’s ambitious plans to bring cheap broadband services to 500,000 villages in the country. The Economic Times reports that the Broadband India Forum (BIF) wrote to the country’s Telecom Secretary Rakesh Garg requesting that Microsoft be required to bid for the frequencies it wants to use, rather than giving them to the company for free. BIF represents major communication companies in the country, including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Intel and Bharat Sanchar Nigam. The letter to Garg is obviously an attempt to keep new competition at bay. In its letter to…
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