Airtel, RCom ready to start 3G services in India from septemberBharti Airtel and Reliance Communications, Top telecom operators of Indian Telecom industry stated they were ready with their 3G infrastructure and just waiting for the green Signal of spectrum from government. As par Previous announcements the government is likely to release spectrum on September 1 this year after it gets vacated by the defence forces.

“Our network is already ready for providing 3G services. Our content and application are also getting ready for the same and the IT too has geared up. The only thing that needs to be added is the radio network, I am hopeful that before the end of this calendar year, we should see some light on 3G and real user experience happening,” Airtel CEO for India and South Asia, Sanjay Kapoor said[ad code=1]

Expressing similar views on 3G infrastructure set-up, Reliance Communications President Mahesh Prasad in another event told reporters,”If the spectrum is allocated by September. We will roll-out our services by the end of the year or by early next year.” On the topic of finalising vendors he replied,” Yes indeed our vendors partners (Huwarei and ZTE as of now) have also got approval and we are at a process of finalising our network deployment.