COAI slams TRAI on 3G spectrum allocation

Posted on | September 30, 2006 |

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 that the route of auction and high reserve price would be very harmful for reaching the benefits of 3G in an affordable manner, and that the Government should seek to enhance its revenues for 3G through usage and not by imposing high initial fees. The association also expressed concern over TRAI considering 3G as a standalone service and not treating it as an extension of existing 2G services.

However, COAI welcomed TRAI’s views on efficient management of spectrum and endorsed the idea of formation of National Frequency Management Board (NFMB) to coordinate the availability of spectrum.

Source: ET

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