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(The Economic Times (India) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) : Media giant, Zee Group has decided to join hands with Motorola for launching public mobile radio trunking services in Bangalore.
The proposed deal includes using the US-based telecom giant's iDEN technology for this venture.
Though the company had applied for one MHz of spectrum in January this year, Zee TV business head and director of the group Punit Goenka informed the Department of Telecom last week that it has roped in with Motorola and requested the DoT's intervention for allocation of 1 MHz of spectrum at the earliest to commence the operations.
In his letter, dated September 15, Goenka said "After evaluating several technologies, we have decided to use Motorola's iDEN technology for this PMRT services...as per the guidelines, 3MHz of spectrum has been earmarked for digital PMRT services, out of which 1 MHz shall be allocated to any applicant on a first-com first-serve basis."
The Motorola devices could useful to enterprise customers that have long depended on the reliability and range of the walkie-talkie-like push-to-talk (PTT) service on the iDEN network.
Zee plans to provide services using the Motorola-iDEN technology enabling private conversation in a closed group, which will not be charged.
The device will run voice and data services over the network while keeping the PTT VOIP service on the iDEN network.
Motorola's iDEN technology has been in use for the last 20 years across several networks in 22 countries. The US-based Nextel is the largest and most successful service provider using the technology.
"We have done an extensive Radio frequency survey at Bangalore...for city wide coverage as well as to support a network capacity upto 10,000 subscribers, we would require 40 pairs of frequencies (1 MHz)," the letter said.
Zee plans to launch the service during the current fiscal itself.
Stating no other organisation has been approached DoT for usage of spectrum to provide PMRTS, Zee urged the DoT to allocate the same at the earliest.
It also sought the department's intervention as 'despite repeated meetings and discussions with the WPC wing of the Ministry of Communication the required amount of spectrum was not yet released.'
Copyright 2006 The Economic Times of India, Coleman & Co Ltd. Source : Financial Times Information Limited
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