The much mooted issue of spectrum re-farming is likely to get fixed with a final decision, in the meeting of Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM), which would be held on Nov 1. As per the previous meeting held on October 17, the Telecom Commission had decided to take back the more efficient 900 MHz spectrum which was being used by the older telecom operators for reallocation at a later auction.
The spectrum would be taken back at the time of renewal of licenses, which is expected to begin in late 2014, and replaced with spectrum in the 1,800 MHz band. The EGoM, headed by finance minister P Chidambaram, includes external affairs minister Salman Khurshid, information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari and law minister Ashwani Kumar.
The cabinet is also likely to meet, to approve on a number of issues that have already been passed by the EGoM, which includes the one-time fee, spectrum sharing and tweaks to the mergers and acquisitions policy. The commission’s proposal on spectrum re-farming is based on the recommendations by the internal committee as well as TRAI.
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