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DoT to sanction 56,000 WILL lines

Disclosing this to reporters at Bangalore, N K Sinha, member (technology), Telecom Commission, said these lines would be provided in 10 cities in the

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country.

This is in addition to several new technologies being evaluated on a field trial basis in Delhi, Maharashtra and Bangalore.

He said DoT had come out with the generic requirement of the WILL technology and it would evaluate whether the systems offered were in tune with this requirement.

The country would go in for a system that not only offers better features but also effectively uses the given bandwidth, he added.

Earlier, delivering the keynote address at the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium Conference on TDMA-IS36, a new WILL technology, he said various options should be considered before induction of any new telecommunication technology in the country.

The chosen technology would have to be integrated with the existing systems.

Sinha said a developing country could not afford to retire a technology within a very short period. Though the industry in the country is playing an important role in bringing in new telecom technology, an approach to utilise the existing infrastructure is most important as the country cannot afford to change its technology once in every five years.

He said the industry required a vision beyond 2000. The technology for the speed of communication had to be developed while integrating various technologies that were being inducted into the network at present.

In this context, he expressed his happiness over the efforts made by UWCC in trying to evolve a third generation IS36 systems by utilising the existing infrastructure in various countries.

Sinha said wireless technologies offered attractive solution in the local networks. Beyond 2000 mobile wide-band applications were expected to be more and more important and advances in technology would make it possible to implement WILL system in urban, sub-urban and rural areas, providing fully featured, and cost effective services such as a transparent air interface, greater subscriber density for a given bandwidth allocation and reduction in cost to subscriber with a greater security against interception.

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