HSDPA/EV-DO for Rural India
G. Venkatesh, Ashwin Ramachandra · 2006
Telecom penetration into rural India needs networks and devices that support richer media and higher d ata rates, but these have to be available at very affordable p rices. In this paper, we examine whether the evolut ion of GSM into HSDPA and CDMA into EV-DO could enable this transformation, since they promise seven times higher peak data rates and four-fold improvement in capacity, with reduced round-trip time and better resource allocation providing WLAN like connections at costs that are 1/15th of GPRS. We examine if this is ach ievable in practice, and its impact on the cost of rural se rvices.