What Could be the Market Value of 2G Telecom Spectrum in India ?
India’s telecom regulator – TRAI, under severe pressure from Corporates and Politicians has flip flopped several times on the pricing of the Spectrum. Here are 3 different View of TRAI / Government on the Telecom Spectrum
- May – 2010 – TRAI Links the price of Telecom Spectrum in excess of 6.2 MHz to the price discovered in 3G Auction
- Feb – 2011 – TRAI backtracks and comes with massive calculations and reduces the price of spectrum considerably compared to its previous recommendation.
- Feb – 2011 – Sr. Advocate turned Telecom Minister, Kapil Sibal’s Zero Loss Theory in Multi-Billion Dollar Spectrum Scam suggests that – 2G is one-third the value of 3G spectrum.
Applying the simple law of Averages for Read more
RIL Infotel Broadband’s 4G / LTE at Rs 10 / GB – Perfect Media Bomb / Gift to India ?
Reliance / Mukesh Ambani is well known to influence the Indian media [Reference Nira Radia Tapes]. Anyway, our interest is Broadband and lets see if their new story of Rs 10 / GB of Wireless Broadband is doable.
Today’s ET reports that Reliance 4G LTE will be offered at Rs 10 / GB, a tenth to fifth the cost at which other operators are offering broadband services on competing technologies [ 3G / EVDO]. Reliance / Infotel Broadband have paid close to USD 2.2 Bn for the Spectrum and yet have a steep uphill task of getting the network up and Read more
900 MHz Wireless Spectrum Refarming – Will this Happen ?
The National Telecom Policy 2011 draft calls for Wireless Spectrum Re-farming. The policy has proposed enactment of a separate Spectrum Act to deal with all issues connected with wireless (spectrum) licenses and their terms and conditions including re-farming/withdrawal of allotted spectrum, spectrum pricing, cancellation or revocation of spectrum license, exemptions on use of spectrum, spectrum sharing, spectrum trading etc
My study is limited to the 900 MHz spectrum which is more efficient than 1800MHz already in use by various GSM Telcos and will this spectrum be taken away ? The telecom industry has been fixated on refarming of 900MHz spectrum and has Read more
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