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[JohnG]

I don't really understand the Reliance difficulty in growing market share.

A) Perhaps this all is a price negotiation scheme on the part of Reliance & the govt

B) If there is a Problem,
Some Explanations could be:
1) Indians are sold on the NOKIA brand name
2) Reliance has crappy billing and/or service
3) Reliance has a crappy call dropping network
4) Calls from CDMA phones to GSM phones are not connected
seamlessly and reliably
5) Calls from CDMA phones to wired phones are not connected seamlessly and reliably
6) There is an unpleasant surcharge on calls from the CDMA network to other wired or wireless networks

I seem to recall that the Great Government of India stuck
Reliance customers with heafty charges when they connect out of the Reliance network

I seem to recall complaints about Reliance having poor billing and customer service.

There is obviously some explanation for why Reliance is not growing customers.

It is pretty clear that the Information Minister is not neutral on the technology. He would penalize spectrum allocations to Reliance by 50% on the grounds that CDMA uses the spectrum more efficiently and thus only takes half the spectrum as does GSM to make an equivalent No. of calls.

These Developing countries that join WTO are uniform in complaining loudly about paying fo using intellectul property.