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TRC to allocate additional WiMAX, LTE spectrum next month, regulator source says
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admin on 26 December, 2009 11:17:00
 
Dialog Telekom, the island’s mobile market leader, has indicated its interest
in the ‘4G’ frequencies to be offered, the source added.
Mobile WiMAX licences are set to be awarded to two new data operators with the
aim of commencing operations by February.
TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database notes that India’s Reliance
Communications (RCOM), which lost out to fellow Indian firm Bharti Airtel in Sri
Lanka’s fifth mobile licence auction, still remains interested in entering the
island’s mobile sector via a joint venture with existing Sri Lankan broadband
and IDD telephony provider Electroteks, named RTEC Mobile Lanka.
Meanwhile, 3.5GHz band WiMAX broadband wireless access (BWA) frequency licences
are already held by Dialog Telekom, Lanka Bell, Suntel and Sri Lanka Telecom
(via Sky Network).