Exams for 3G licensing: Benefit from many sides

The entrance exam for obtaining a 3G license has been agreed by the Government. This comes from the selection of enterprises with sufficient capacity and conditions to deploy 3G in order to effectively use the frequency resources as well as internal resources of the enterprise.

This decision of the Government is very supportive of foreign experts. Ray Owen, Motorola's Asia-Pacific Technology Director, commented that the government's approval of 3G licensing exams is economically the right way to choose telecom operators. capacity requirements and desire to be licensed to deploy the network. Mr. Ray Owen also said that this is a good form, helping to clearly show the intentions and wishes of the provider when deploying mobile networks.

Mr. Thomas Weber, General Director of Nokia Siemens Networks in Vietnam, said that the 3G examination is really a form of benefit for all parties. Operators will have more financial resources to invest in the network and deploy new services, instead of using that money to buy licenses (high prices) through auction. Consumers will of course benefit in having more advanced new services to choose from.

Not only foreign experts, domestic businesses are also very supportive of this policy. Mr. Nguyen Manh Hung, Viettel's Deputy General Director, said that the government's approval for 3G examination has solved the story of transparency. Only the test questions will be made to achieve the Government's goals. " 2G operators are overloaded with frequency and equipment, and having a 3G license is an opportunity to allocate 2G anti-jamming frequencies.

When licensed, 3G can provide better service than 2G. For example, CDMA networks are having faster transmission rates that GSM network providers have not yet made. When there is a 3G license, GSM networks will provide high-speed services so the competitiveness will be better. In addition, 3G licenses will solve broadband Internet problems for those who cannot pull copper cables or want to have low investment costs. So if a 3G-licensed operator can use some of the capacity to provide broadband Internet, especially in places like towns or remote areas, 'said Nguyen Manh Hung.

" I think that the 3G examination also ensures transparency. If this 3G examination is true to the nature of a real competition, the SPT is not worried because if the incompetent enterprise will fail. SPT will try to recruit 3G to develop a 3G network of their own "- Mr. Pham Ngoc Tuan, General Director of SPT said.

The essence of 3G is to build from 2G up. So which operators have the widest 2G network, the most customers also have the opportunity to quickly deploy 3G networks due to their economies of scale to provide cheap 3G services to create opportunities. for many users. Moreover, when building 3G network will also lose a small financial investment, so any operator with strong financial capacity will have better conditions to develop 3G network.

In terms of these criteria, GSM networks are having an advantage over CDMA networks.