Government does not intend to change the policy of auction: Kapil Sibal

06 Dec 2012 Evaluate

Despite a cool response to the recently concluded 2G spectrum auction, the telecom minister Kapil Sibal has said that the government does not intend to change the policy to auction spectrum for mobile phone operators.

In Lok Sabha, replying to a question to whether the government would return to the policy of 'first come, first serve’, the minister reiterated that government has no intention of doing so. He further stated that there was a drop of 27.82 million mobile phone subscribers in the July-September period and the number was expected to touch 208 million, decline was mainly due to removal of inactive mobile telephone connections.

Further he added that the tele-density in the country was 680 million and 500 million still do not have a mobile phone. He admitted that poor connectivity on state-run BSNL network is due to the outdated networks but BSNL is trying to complete the tendering process to set up its second core network.

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