Concluding last week after 16 days of bidding, India's Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum auction amounted to $8.23 billion for the Indian government, with chip vendor Qualcomm winning spectrum in four service areas. Qualcomm had previously stated that it intends to use TD-LTE technology in any newly licensed market, which may deal a bit of a blow to WiMax vendors such as Reliance Industries.
As has been noted, the BWA auction was hotly contested. The auction opens the door for winners to offer high-speed Internet access including telephony and TV services. More importantly, as noted in The Wall Street Journal, the winning companies can eventually leverage the bandwidth for voice and high-speed data services, amid some uncertainty over the granting of second- and third-generation radio bandwidth in the future.
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