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2G auction: Airtel, Vodafone, Telenor submit applications
Friday October 19, 2012 07:27:43 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Bharti
Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular and Telenor are some of the
telecom companies which Friday submitted applications to the
Department of Telecom (DoT) for participating in the 2G auction
next month.
Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL), which operates its services
under the MTS brand, however, said it will not participate in the
auction as it is awaiting a decision on its curative petition
filed in the Supreme Court.
"SSTL has consistently maintained that it has been unfairly
penalised in the February ruling of the Supreme Court and has
filed a curative petition seeking to restore its licences," SSTL
said.
"SSTL was the only operator to have applied for a pan-India CDMA
spectrum in 2008. There is no finding or suggestion by the CAG
report that CDMA spectrum was equally or anywhere near in demand
as GSM," the company added, suggesting that it has a strong case
and would prefer to wait.
The operator stands to lose 21 of its licences following the Feb 2
Supreme Court's order quashing 122 licences issued during the
tenure of former Telecom Minister A. Raja. The apex court had
asked the government to redistribute the licences through an
auction process.
Norway's Telenor said it has submitted an application but a final
decision on whether or not to participate will be taken before the
auction starts.
The application was filed by Telewings Communication Services
Private Limited, a fully owned Telenor Group company.
Vodafone too said it has filed the application without disclosing
any further details.
Sources at Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular also confirmed that the
companies have filed their applications.
Among other players who did not submit their applications for
participation was Reliance Communications.
Friday was the last date for companies to submit their application
to participate in the auction, which is scheduled to start from
November 12.
DoT had Sep 28 issued the notice inviting applications. The final
list of bidders will be announced Nov 6.
This will be followed by a mock auction Nov 7 and 8 and thereafter
the e-auction of 1800 MHz band will take place Nov 12.
The start of e-auction of 800 MHz band will happen two days after
close of the 1800 MHz band auction.
The payment of the successful bid amount will have to be done
within 10 days of the close of the respective e-auctions.
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