Is there room for so many telecom operators ?

In the last Year or so we have seen a huge surge in the number of Wireless Telecom operators who have got licenses to operate in the Indian Telecom & now we have so many Operators vying for their share in the India Wireless domain

But this pops up one quetsion - do we need to have so many operators in all Circles ? Wouldn't it be great if we had some limit on the number of players in a circle as limited operators with large chunk of spectrum can do well with their network planning than every player getting a thin slice each . If we look at the ARPU as of now (Oct'09) it is a mere $4 . Now with this kind of ARPU if the no of operators increase further dividing the no of subscribers for all operators imagine what will happen to the ARPU

I would quote here the example of UK. There for 3G licenses they just choose only 5 operators for Pan UK 3G license .

Don't u think that in India we tend to overdo in every thing. Just because Indian Telecom was doing good everybody wanted to be a part of it with some operators like Unitech & Swan even slellng their stake before even doing any work on planning the network . I think that so many operators would do more harm than good to Indian Telecom. Look at China - there the Govt on its own - to synergise the China Telecom sector formed 3 companies - China Mobile, China Telecom & China Unicom each operating on three main 3G standards - WCDMA CDMA EV-DO, TD-SCDMA .

Any clues for Indian Telecom sector ?????