Govt eyes Rs 12000 cr from March spectrum sale - Business Today

Home /SECTORS /Telecom /Story PTI    New Delhi   Last Updated: February 9, 2013  | 00:11 IST The government expects to get initial payment of around 12,000 crore from spectrum auction scheduled to start from March 11, a senior DoT official said. "If participants in the auction choose to opt to pay in installments, then first installment will be around Rs 12,000 crore," the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) official said on the sidelines of an open session with industry on the upcoming spectrum auction. The official added that Rs 12,000 crore is based on estimates that all spectrum that is being put up for auction, starting March 11, will be sold at the reserve price. The DoT in the official document for upcoming spectrum auction has given option to bidders of GSM spectrum to pay only 33 per cent in the case of 1800MHz band (currently used for GSM services) and 25 per cent in case of 900MHz and 800MHz band of the final bid amount. The government has so far only received around Rs 1,700 crore from spectrum auction conducted in November 2012. Most of the airwaves frequencies in this auction were sold at reserve prices. Based on the bid amount, government has asked old telecom operators to pay one-time spectrum fee on the airwaves allocated to them beyond 4.4 Mhz spectrum in case of GSM. In case of CDMA, the fee is for spectrum beyond 2.5 Mhz, which they got along with their permits. The first installment to be paid by GSM players amounted to around Rs 8,115 crore but most of the players like Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone, Idea Cellular have got stay order from courts in the matter. According to sources, CDMA players may have to jointly pay less than Rs 1,000 crore out of Rs 3,033.2 crore as first installment of their one-time spectrum charge. Paving the way for VAS developers Telcos user base declines by 26 mn in Dec Bharti Airtel rejigs Indian operations Irda hikes equity exposure limit for insurers Railways earnings up by 20% in Apr-Jan Economy likely to grow at 5.5%: FinMin via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEpPXPVEatJTLC5RUd16xFo9qhN1w&url=http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/spectrum-sale-telecom/1/192242.html

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