The Government is likely to announce the Largest Telecom Spectrum Auction in the History of India in the next couple of months. Notice Inviting Applications is not out yet and sources in DoT indicate a delay of Month. Of all the spectrums auctioned – 800 Mhz, 900 Mhz, 1800 Mhz,Continue Reading
The Big 3 of Indian Telecom – Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular abide by the tested strategy of maintaining / increasing the 900 MHz portfolio along with increasing 3G/4G FDD footprint. Incumbents A-Vo-Id Group put their strategy as to what their Revenue Model Says – Voice to 3G Mobile DataContinue Reading
Evey body was caught with a surprise when DoT revealed the earnest money deposits for the 2015 Mega Spectrum Auction as Reliance Jio turned out to be the highest depositor. Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio Infocomm already has a) Pan India 4G-BWA Spectrum in 2300 MHz band of 20 MhzContinue Reading
The Indian Telecom Regulator TRAI, in a bold move has recommended auctioning 15-20 MHz (3-4 blocks of 5 MHz each) of 2100 band spectrum [3G Spectrum] in the upcoming auctions along with 900 and 1800 spectrum. TRAI expressed strong disagreement with not auctioning 2100 spectrum at all or auctioning aContinue Reading
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India – TRAI hosted an Open House discussion on valuation and reserve price of the upcoming auction of 2100MHz spectrum band. This event was part of TRAI’s consultation process before finalizing its recommendation to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) over the next few weeks.Continue Reading
Spectrum auctions in India continued to drift along the lines we have seen in the past few days. The blended prices of 900MHz now up 84% above reserve price levels. Pan-India 1800 prices have now moved up 22% above reserve price levels with excess demand continuing in a few circles.Continue Reading
The government yesterday cleared the auction for 900MHz Spectrum. In Delhi 900 auctions (16MHz on offer), holders Airtel and Vodafone should shut out challengers and each retain their entire 8MHz. It’ll be surprising to see if they reduced their stakes let a new holder take a head start in 900Continue Reading
Ahead of the release of the Government Policy on Telecom Spectrum Sharing, M&A, etc we’d like to highlight the War of Words between the TRAI and the DoT in this context since 2010. A gentle reminder would be that the interest of the Nation comes last and the agenda drivenContinue Reading
Even though the position of the incumbents is that auctioning 900MHz is illegal, TRAI’s proposed base price cuts make it reasonably priced. In Delhi, Airtel and Vodafone are very dominant (35% and 28% Revenue Market Share). They would place a much higher value on 900MHz retention than a challenger likeContinue Reading
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