3G technology in Pakistan

Though the world is enjoying 4G technology but Pakistanis are still waiting for 3G to be introduced. However the federal govt is all ready to begin the open auction process of the much delayed third generation (3G) telecom licences on Wednesday with the approval of the bidding plan. This auction is hopefully estimated to yield about $1 billion .

PM  Gilani is to preside over a meeting of the federal cabinet to approve the bidding plan.

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The 3G technology is of next generation mobile networks that operates at a higher frequency and larger channel bandwidth to support very high data rates of up to 4Mbps.

The government had earlier planned to auction 3G telecom licences during previous financial year and had set a target of Rs50 billion in last year`s federal budget but this time govt may get more than a billion dollars.