The Defence Ministry hasn't agreed to swap bandwidth, derailing the government plants of generating on estimated Rs 5000 crore of revenue this fiscal. Telecom companies that used the spectrum badly for their expansion are hit badly by this decision.
The telecom department (DoT) is also unlikely to auction airwaves in the 800 Mhz band, typically used by CDMA operators. The department is yet to write back to the sector regulator on revising the base price, and there isn't much time left for the process to get underway. The government has set February 3, 2015, as the tentative starting date for the 2G and 3G auctions.
Operators had urged DoT to coax the armed forces to swap 15 MHz in the 3G band with an equal chunk of airwaves in the 1900 MHz band. But DoT's failure to notify the defence band zone, which meant setting aside frequency bands that couldn't be used by anyone else, has soured matters.
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/broadband-and-iptv-news/item/5767-defence-ministry-disagrees-with-bandwidth-does-not-agree-to-swapping-for-3g-spectrum.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/broadband-and-iptv-news/item/5767-defence-ministry-disagrees-with-bandwidth-does-not-agree-to-swapping-for-3g-spectrum.html
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