COAI slams TRAI on 3G spectrum allocation

GSM body COAI says that TRAI’s recommendations on allocation of 3G spectrum were completely in favour of CDMA mobile operators and also criticised high base price of frequency.
“On the whole, the TRAI recommendations are rather slanted in favour of CDMA and disadvantageous to GSM,” COAI Director General T V Ramchandran said in a statement.
COAI believes [...]

TRAI recommendations favour CDMA operators

Financial Express states that the CDMA operators will have an 8-9 month head start over GSM players and a significant price and technology advantage in rolling out 3G services from the day of acquiring frequency.
This is largely because CDMA players have been given the option to bid for 3G services on the 800 Mhz spectrum [...]

PAN India license fee worries operators

One of the major concerns of operators with TRAI recommendations on 3G spectrum allocations is the Rs 1,400-crore base price that has been set for a PAN India license.
GSM players pointed out that recommendations were near identical to Tata group chairman Ratan Tata’s offer of a Rs 1,500-crore national licence fee for 3G spectrum.
The suggestion [...]