TRAI sticks to controversial auction plans

A man talks on a mobile phone after the evening prayer inside a mosque at the shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya in New DelhiNEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s telecoms regulator on Sunday reaffirmed most of its proposed rules for an auction of mobile airwaves, including a steep base price for bids, despite howls of protests by carriers in the world’s second-biggest mobile phone market. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had last month suggested an auction starting price that is nearly 10 times of what carriers had paid in a 2008 state grant process and also proposed limited number of slots in the auction. …



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