Auction: RCom, Aircel to bid separately, 5 others also in fray

Auction: RCom, Aircel to bid separately, 5 others also in fray

PTIUpdated: Thursday, May 30, 2019, 12:31 PM IST
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New Delhi : Telecom operators Reliance Communications and Aircel, which announced their merger about a week ago, will bid separately in the upcoming mega-spectrum auction where all the seven applicants have made it to the final list of bidders.

As per the information released by the Department of Telecom (DoT), none of the seven applicants — Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices, RCom and Aircel — withdrew their application. The last date for withdrawal of application was September 22.     RCom and Aircel had announced their merger on the last date of submission of spectrum auction application. RCom is eligible to bid for spectrum across country except North East and Assam.

There are host of restriction on bidding eligibility of Aircel. It cannot bid for spectrum in premium 700 Mhz, 800 Mhz and 2500 Mhz in any of the circle.

The company is eligible for bidding in 13 out of 22 circles for 3G spectrum (2100 Mhz) which include Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (East), Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka etc.    It can only bid for spectrum in 900 and 1800 Mhz band across all circles.

 The new entrant Reliance Jio – telecom venture of India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani – has been allocated the highest eligibility point of 44,506, and can bid in any band in any service area.

 Jio is the only applicant that has potential to bid for pan-India airwaves in premium 700 Mhz band for mobile services.

The company which has unleashed a price war in India with its disruptive offerings, last week submitted the highest earnest money for the auction at Rs 6,500 crore, reports PTI.

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