Indian GSM operators serves 300 pc more users/MHz than China

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New Delhi, Aug 6 (UNI) Refuting allegations that China is serving 1.5 times more subscribers per MHz than India, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) today said Indian GSM operators are serving 300 per cent more subscribers per MHz, thereby using spectrum far more efficiently than China.

''Indian GSM operators are serving 3.36 million subcribers per MHz, against 0.85 million subscribers per MHz by China, thus serving 300 per cent more subscribers per MHz than China,'' COAI Director General T V Ramachandran said in a statement here.

Elaborating on this aspect, he said for the same benchmark period of 12 years of services that is December 1999 for China and December 2006 for India, the Indian GSM operators were serving 3.36 million subscribers per MHz (125 million GSM mobile subscribers with 37.2 MHz of spectrum).

While China's GSM operators were serving only 0.85 million subscribers per MHz (38 million GSM mobile subscribers with 45 MHZ of spectrum).

The Director General reiterated that subscribers per MHz is a criterion that was reflective of the growth of a network and hence comparisons using this parameter must take into account similar network maturity and other demographic variants.

Mr Ramachandran said China had started mobile services seven years before India and that if the mobile networks in the two countries were compared at an equivalent stage of maturity, then in fact that the Indian GSM operators were serving almost four times as many subscribers per MHz than China.

UNI

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