India Spectrum Auction 2024 Starts With 10,522.35 MHz Across 8 Bands

The Indian government has commenced the spectrum auction today at 10 am to enhance telecommunications services across India, the Ministry of communications said. The Spectrum Auction 2024 will see the participation from three Indian private telecom service providers: Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, and Reliance Jio Infocomm. The total spectrum being auctioned amounts to 10,522.35 MHz across various bands, valued at Rs 96,238.45 crore at reserve prices.

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Bands Up for Auction

“To augment existing telecom services and maintain continuity of services, the government will hold the spectrum auction on Tuesday, 25 June 2024. This is in line with government’s commitment to facilitate affordable, state-of-art high quality telecom services to all the citizens,” the government said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Communications announced that the following spectrum bands will go up for bidding in the upcoming auction – 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz, 2500 MHz, 3300 MHz and 26 GHz. To note, The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has initiated the Spectrum Auction and Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) was issued on 08 March, 2024.

The spectrum auction includes a total of 10,522.35 MHz distributed across various frequency bands. In the 800 MHz band, 118.75 MHz of spectrum is available across 19 Licensed Service Areas (LSAs), valued at Rs 21,341.25 Crores at reserve prices.

The 900 MHz band offers 117.2 MHz of spectrum spread over 22 LSAs, valued at Rs 15,619.6 Crores. In the 1800 MHz band, 221.4 MHz of spectrum is divided among 22 LSAs, with a total value of Rs 21,752.4 Crores.