Clubbing of 2300, 2500 Mhz bands irrational, says COAI
19 Dec 2015
Telecom body COAI, which represents operators on the GSM platform, has written to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India arguing against the latter's proposal of treating airwaves in the 2300 Mhz band and 2500 Mhz band as one for calculating the spectrum holding caps on telecom operators.
The industry body has said that any such move would allow a single operator to buy all the airwaves in either of the two bands, leading to a monopoly and will discourage competition.
In a letter to Trai chairman Ram Sewak Sharma, director general of COAI Rajan Mathews says, "There is no rationale for treating airwaves in 2300 Mhz band and the 2500 Mhz band as one".
At present, the spectrum caps do not permit an operator to hold airwaves in any frequency band beyond 50 per cent of the spectrum allocated in that particular band and more than 25 per cent of the total spectrum allocated across all bands in that particular service area.
The letter comes within days of the industry body urging the regulator not to treat all the frequencies in the sub-Ghz 1 band as one for the same reasons. It has asked the regulator to withdraw both the proposals.
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