In November 2011, TRAI recommended several amendments to its May 2010 recommendations on spectrum management (refarming, pricing and sharing) and licensing (such as fees, M&A guidelines and roll-out obligations). The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has responded by accepting some of these recommendations (such as including ISPs and IP-1 under licensing ambit) and rejecting others (such as roll-out obligation).
This Viewpoint provides:
- a summary of TRAI's recommendations on spectrum management and licensing
- an analysis of spectrum holdings by Indian operators
- spectrum refarming case studies in selected European countries
- a guide to the Western European approach to the liberalisation of 2G spectrum
- an outline of the impact TRAI's recommendations will have on operators.