At the India Telecom conference organized by FICCI and India's Department of Telecommunications, Bharti Airtel CEO & Joint MD Manoj Kohli spoke about a number of issues facing the telecom sector. A summary of his talk, the Q&A with the audience and reporters after the session ended: On TRAI Guidelines Regarding 2G Spectrum: TRAI & DoT should look at the report submitted by the spectrum committee and build a long term roadmap for 2G spectrum reaches 1 billion subscribers. It's important the the voice need for Indian customers should be met. There is a lot of pressure on quality and new capacity required, because voice usage is increasing well all over the country. So a long term roadmap for spectrum allocation in an orderly and level playing field fashion is necessary. Voice will grow for 3-4 years. Across the globe, telecom operators have 17MHz, while in India it is -8MHz of spectrum. This puts pressure on carriers. 3G will be used for voice, because of the voice efficiency it brings in. Capacity left for data is low. We have made 3 appeals to the government: Firstly that the 3G auctions should go according to plan. Secondly that they should release 5MHz more later, and thirdly that we need a roadmap for 2G spectrum for the growth from 500million to 1 billion mobile customers in India. CapEx Requirements For 3G rollout: We'll share when we are ready On 4G & LTE: It's too expensive at this time, and I don't think…
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