Source: Economictimes
I have not seen any official announcement in DOT or TRAI, but if sources to be believed this is a very good news for the industry in India. Simply this is what Chinese did with TD-SCDMA. Chinese government granted few millions of dollars to the academia and gave clear target to come up with own standard. This really helped the Chinese universities as in order to develop spec, they need to work close with the industry. When the academia works close with industry the theory is put in practicality and I strongly believe this can benefit the society a lot.
Now with their own technology, Chinese doesn't have to pay any royalty or IP rights to western counterparts. They can save billions of dollars during the coming years.
The irony is most of the software component and system development part is done in India for the Chinese telecom vendors. However thanks to our Government policies and lack of foresight from the regulator we still paying millions and millions to western companies. Though the call rates are the cheapest in the world, still the poor "aam admi" transferring his hard earned money to western nations.
We should look at developing not only the standard but the entire eco-system. Perhaps our own Ericsson, Nokia & Apple..It may not be possible in one year or two years but by 2020 we should be able to do that given the great universities and resources we've.
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