India targets more than Rs 80,000 cr revenues from 2G, 3G auctions

The 20-year licence for 900 MHz for Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India for Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata circles lapsed, a month ago. But the same time, department of telecommunications (DoT) has approved to offer a 45-day extension (till January 14, 2015) to Bharti Airtel and Vodafone for migrating to new frequencies. So that users of the both telecom service providers will not impact till new licences are allotted.

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Recently, the Supreme Court of India (SCI) had rejected Vodafone India’s plea to extend the validity of the operator’s licences in the Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana, Kerala, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (East) circles. With this, the next round of auctions for spectrum is compulsory for mobile operators – Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Reliance Communication – as some of their licences are set to expire in 2015-16 and the government of India estimated revenues will be more than Rs 80,000 (Rs 64840 cr excluding 2100 MHz spectrum) of which Rs 16000 cr from 5 MHz of 3G spectrum in the 2,100 MHz band along with 2G bands (800, 900 and 1,800 MHz) in the auctions planned

For 2100 MHz, Union cabinet said that intent to put 2100 MHz to simultaneous auction may be announced along with auction of other bands. Details of this will be announced later on. The reserve price for 800 MHz is at Rs 3646 crore pan-India per MHz and for 900 MHz at Rs 3980 per band pan India excluding Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jammu & Kashmir.