The Division of Telecommunications (DoT) has launched a brand new utility schedule for the spectrum public sale 2024. For the unaware, because of the upcoming central elections, the telecom division needed to change the schedule of the spectrum public sale. Earlier, the public sale was slated for Might 20, nevertheless, later it was pushed 15 days forward to June 6, 2024.
Following that, the telecom division has launched a brand new schedule for the appliance submission process for the upcoming auctions. The mock auctions might be held on June 3 now, as an alternative of the sooner Might 13 or Might 14.
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DoT will publish the ultimate listing of bidders on Might 9. The final time when DoT revealed this listing, Adani Information Networks was the shocking addition. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see if there’s any such addition this time. Adani Information Networks is unlikely to take part this time as the corporate doesn’t plan to supply industrial providers and solely makes use of the spectrum to assist Adani Group corporations with their connectivity wants.
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The upcoming spectrum public sale will see corporations bidding for spectrum price Rs 96,317.65 crore. The Ministry of Communication introduced that the next spectrum bands will go up for bidding within the upcoming public sale – 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz, 2500 MHz, 3300 MHz and 26 GHz.
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Telcos together with Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are anticipated to take part in a muted method. The telcos already invested loads of cash within the earlier auctions for rolling out 5G. This time, they are going to solely get the spectrum for areas the place they’re quickly seeing airwaves expiring. Additional, as 5G can’t be monetised in the intervening time, it received’t make sense for the telcos to take a position some huge cash into 5G airwaves.
