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The Department of Telecommunications will conduct auctions for 3G spectrum across 22 telecom circles in the country on January 14, 2010 a pre-bid conference would be held on November 16, 2009.
The 3G spectrum will be auctioned in four stages invitation stage, pre-qualification, auction and grant of spectrum and a mock auction will be conducted on January 11 and 12.
The memorandum also gives details of the spectrum charges the successful bidders will have to shell out over the spectrum acquisition fee. An annual spectrum charge will be levied on the total adjusted gross revenue of 2G and 3G services taken together.The government has also relaxed External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) guidelines up to $500 million to finance spectrum acquisition fees, while it had decided to hold a separate auction for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA).
The DoT will also auction one block for telephony services on code division multiple access, or CDMA, technology.
Indian companies holding licenses to offer telephony services would be allowed to bid for 3G bandwidth. Companies that don’t have a license to offer telephony services in India will be allowed to bid, but will have to procure a license before they commercially launch 3G services.
DoT has mandated a roll-out obligation of covering 90 per cent of areas in the metros within a 5-year period of spectrum allocation.There would be moratorium of one year on the payment of annual spectrum charges for standalone 3G operators, while existing operators with 2G and 3G spectrum will not enjoy any moratorium.
Foreign telecom companies that don’t have telecom operations in India may bid directly or through a majority-owned subsidiary. Such companies–if they win the bid–would have to procure a license to offer telephony services in India before they commercially launch 3G.
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Rajveer November 5, 2009 at 2:34 pm
How many total blocks of 5 MHz spectrum for 3G is planned to be auctioned in India (all circles) by DoT??
Tarun October 28, 2009 at 11:38 am
@altaf
I believe that across certain circles spectrum is being validated by the government, which could be the reason for not mentioning of specific frequencies in these circles.
If you look at the DoT note, it mentions: “The government is validating frequency available across circles for the auction and the final details of the frequencies to be auctioned will be notified in the notice”.
Yes, BSNL and MTNL were allocated 5.5 MHz across various circles, but this shouldn’t prevent the government from providing spectrum for other players.
lOvEr bOy October 26, 2009 at 10:02 pm
its better to apply for 4G instead of 3G
altaf October 26, 2009 at 9:56 pm
thats correct only 20 circles not 22
atanu October 26, 2009 at 4:18 pm
excluding Assam.
Swaps October 26, 2009 at 4:11 pm
@atanu
Whole of northeast or the northeast circle?
atanu October 26, 2009 at 4:07 pm
@ tarun
“Auctions For 3G Spectrum Across 22 Telecom Circles On January 14,2010″
no tarun auction for 20 circle. because “Rajasthan” have not any 3G Spectrum and “north east” have only 5 MHZ that already given to Bsnl. Please mention it. sorry, tarun your informatin is wrong..
DJSays! October 26, 2009 at 9:14 am
@kaushik
As always!. I feel they should wait for a few years and auction out 4G spectrum instead of 3G. By the time the consumers start using or getting used to 3G – 4G or LTE would have been deployed worldwide!
kaushik October 25, 2009 at 10:51 pm
it will be delayed again surely
no doubt about the delay