by Toby Youell
India has completed its auction of 900 MHz and 1800 MHz spectrum, shortly after its regulator recommended that the government should allow spectrum trading. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
India’s second attempt to auction off spectrum licences confiscated by the Supreme Court last year came to an end this week with one bidder buying a limited amount of regional lots in one band. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
India’s second attempt to auction off licences confiscated last year by the country’s Supreme Court appears to have ended in failure, despite the reserve price having been slashed following a previous failed auction attempt. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
India’s controversial auction of GSM licenses confiscated from 11 operators by the country’s supreme court has come to an ignominious end with the government raising less than a quarter of the revenue it had predicted. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
A group of Indian ministers has approved a hefty one-off fee for operators holding “excess” GSM and CDMA spectrum, but has also agreed on a licence fee refund to operators who were stripped of spectrum by the country’s supreme court. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
The Indian government has finally announced the key decisions that will permit the auction of the 800 and 1800 MHz spectrum vacated following the withdrawal of 122 regional licences which the country’s supreme court ruled had been corruptly awarded in 2008. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
Arbitrary, regressive and inconsistent were some of the more polite things Indian and foreign telecoms executives had to say about the Telecoms Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) proposals on re-auctioning confiscated 2G licences, refarming 2G spectrum for 3G and 4G and auctioning the 700 MHz band. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
A week after the Indian Supreme Court revoked 122 telecommunications licences issued in 2008, a clearer picture is starting to emerge of what this will mean not just to the six operators involved but also to the mobile industry in the country as a whole. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
The momentum propelling TD-LTE towards full commercial launch in the world’s two largest mobile markets continues to build as chipmakers and equipment vendors climb on board the China Mobile-powered bandwagon. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
India’s long-awaited new telecoms policy has been published in draft form, but paints a broad picture of the government’s intentions rather than filling in the details. Read more...