EGoM on telecom to meet in backdrop of tepid response to 2G auction

29 Nov 2012 Evaluate

The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on telecom, headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, will be meeting today after the lukewarm response to recently concluded 2G spectrum auction as the government garnered only Rs 9,407 crore out of Rs 28,000 crore which was minimum value of the airwaves put for auction and the reason was said to be the high reserve price fixed by government.

Government had fixed around 8 times high reserve price for GSM spectrum and 11 times high price for CDMA spectrum compared to the amount on which companies were allocated pan-India permits till 2008. While, the CDMA auction completely flopped with no bidders, the most striking part of the auction in GSM was that auction did not see any takers for spectrum in lucrative Delhi, Mumbai, Rajasthan and Karnataka region.

Though, the government has not disclosed the issues that will be discussed at EGoM but it is the first meeting on spectrum issues after auction of spectrum and as per earlier stated, issue like option to look at price of spectrum for which there has been no bid and CDMA spectrum may be discussed in the meet as government has plans to auction unsold spectrum by March next year.

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