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Telecom panel may oppose spectrum auction
The Telecom Commission, the policy making wing of the department of telecom is understood to have taken a final view on regulator Trai’s licensing reform proposals including the one that there be no cap on number of operations in acircle. Some of the proposals have been accepted, some tweaked and some have been rejected, sources said.
The commission is of the opinion that auction of additional spectrum is not a considerable idea at the moment, keeping in mind the affordability and low teledensity. The report of the commission will now be put up before communications minister A Raja at the earliest and depending on his approval, the new licensing policy may be unveiled at any moment. Although senior officials were tight lipped about the details of the proposals that has been finalised by the commission, some of these recommendations which have been accepted are bringing down the combined subscriber basae criteria from 67 percent to 40% in the merged entity in case of M&As.