New Delhi: The division of telecommunications (DoT) intends to carry the subsequent spectrum auctions throughout the ongoing monetary yr or newest by early subsequent monetary yr, on the similar reserve costs because the 2022 auctions for present spectrum bands, a senior official mentioned.
“The Union cupboard had determined that there must be public sale yearly. We despatched our proposal to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) searching for the advice for the subsequent public sale. They mentioned that DoT already has the unique worth, phrases and situations, eligibility standards for the legacy bands, so that you go forward with all these situations and instantly conduct the auctions,” Gulab Chand, joint wi-fi adviser, WPC Wing of the DoT mentioned at an occasion on Thursday. He added that the TRAI had given this readability to the division, however for auctioning the brand new Q & V bands, the regulator has sought extra time for recommending availability and reserve pricing.
Some carriers could must renew spectrum holdings of their present bands, making up a complete of 10 bands for the public sale. The bands embody 600 MHz, 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz, 2500 MHz, 3400 MHz and 26GHz frequencies.
“It’s our plan to carry the subsequent auctions earlier than the tip of this fiscal principally as a result of lots of the areas within the decrease bands are expiring so operators is likely to be prepared to retake it, so we should give them alternative to to not lose out on an already established ecosystem in that band,” he added.
“We’re attempting very onerous to carry auctions, if not inside this fiscal then possibly only the start of the subsequent fiscal,” he mentioned.
The reserve worth for the subsequent public sale will likely be primarily based on earlier Trai suggestion of 2022, clarified V Raghunandan, secretary at Trai, who mentioned that Trai had shared in its earlier suggestions that if the public sale is to be carried out in a subsequent yr or in inside three years, the identical pricing of 2022 might be utilized by the federal government.
The 2022 spectrum auctions, the place the federal government put a complete of 72,097.85 MHz of spectrum for public sale and was the primary ever sale of 5G airwaves, fetched a file ₹1.5 trillion.
The subsequent public sale could not fetch such excessive values as carriers can be bidding for top band airwaves which are decrease priced or for spectrum developing for renewal, and little or no spectrum within the priciest 700 Mhz band can be obtainable for buy, business specialists mentioned.
“If public sale must be finished subsequent yr, the worth TRAI had given final yr throughout our suggestions. We clarified and reiterated that, sure, you go forward with the public sale at this worth,” he mentioned, clarifying that Trai’s views had been a part of the prior suggestions and never a change from its earlier suggestions.
“Now we have additionally given a formulation of indexing for figuring out base worth,” he added
The 2022 spectrum auctions, the place the federal government put a complete of 72,097.85 MHz of spectrum for public sale and was the primary ever sale of 5G airwaves, it fetched a file ₹1.5 trillion. The subsequent public sale could not fetch such excessive values as carriers can be bidding for top band airwaves which are decrease priced or for spectrum developing for renewal, and little or no spectrum within the priciest 700 Mhz band can be obtainable for buy, business specialists mentioned.
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Up to date: 19 Oct 2023, 11:08 PM IST
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