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NEW DELHI: Spectrum<\/a> sharing and trading rules won't be unveiled until the general elections are over, which means India's telecom companies may have to put their strategic planning on hold, especially since any consolidation plans will be critically dependent on airwaves involved in such deals.\n
Telecom Secretary<\/a> MF Farooqui<\/a> told ET that the telecom department was still working on the guidelines for both sharing and trading and it would take at least a month-and-a-half for them to be ready.
\n
\nHowever, a senior government official said separately that the department was going to play it safe by not issuing the new rules while the model code of conduct was in place.
\n
\n\"We don't want to notify the details of spectrum<\/a> sharing and trading before the elections, lest some industry body contests that the government has interfered with the code of conduct,\" the official said.
\n
\nNorms crucial for consolidation<\/strong>
\n
\nThe guidelines are crucial as they along with the mergers and acquisitions rules will pave the way for much-needed consolidation in a fragmented telecom industry, and facilitate optimal use of spectrum, a scarce natural resource. Once the government notifies the rules, operators will have the liberty to decide whether to acquire a company or if it would be more cost effective to trade or share spectrum. Airwaves are the most crucial element in an M&A deal in the spectrumstarved country.
\n
The government must use the time it has to address what appear to be shortcomings of the draft guidelines on sharing in order to encourage operators to use the option, said Hemant Joshi of Deloitte<\/a> Haskins & Sells.
\n
\n\"The telecom industry, for instance, would like 3G spectrum to be included in sharing since they have paid a market-determined price for the spectrum, and that intra-circle sharing be permitted,\" he said.
\n
\nAccording to the draft guidelines on sharing, telcos will be allowed to deal in bandwidth in the 1800 Mhz, 900 Mhz and 800 Mhz bands and that too only in a circle where both the operators hold the spectrum, a clause that effectively continues to bar the 3G intra-circle roaming pacts between telecom operators. The 2100 Mhz band is being used for 3G in India.
\n
\nThe draft sharing guidelines also impose a spectrum usage charge (SUC), regarded as too hefty by operators, who say they would have to pay the fee jointly on the total frequencies shared between them.
\n
\nThis means that if operator A with 4.4 Mhz spectrum in a service area and operator B with a similar amount share airwaves in a particular service area, they will have to jointly pay 8% SUC as the total quantum of spectrum held by them would be 8.8 Mhz.
\n
\n
\n\t <\/div> Even as the government appears to be unrelenting on the issue of sharing spectrum in the 3G band of 2100 Mhz, according to people familiar with the matter, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairman Rahul Khullar<\/a> recently met telecom CEOs to arrive at some sort of provision to address the issue of 3G intra-circle roaming.
\n
The authority has in the past admonished the government for imposing an \"unfair\" ban on operators sharing airwaves when the government is unable to meet the industry's spectrum requirement. The government and industry are in a stalemate over 3G intra-circle roaming and the matter is currently being heard in the Supreme Court<\/a>.
\n
\nOn spectrum trading, the regulator's recommendations in January — which need to be cleared by the government — allow operators to trade in airwaves auctioned by the government since 2010 for a 1% transaction fee. The two parties can, however, only trade in spectrum two years after having bought it from the government.\n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":32462059,"title":"DoT to test imported telecom gear, network elements locally","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/policy\/dot-to-test-imported-telecom-gear-network-elements-locally\/32462059","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"policy"}],"related_content":[],"msid":32476831,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"Spectrum rules likely to be put in cold freezer due to LS polls","synopsis":"A senior govt official said separately that the dept was going to play it safe by not issuing the new rules while the model code of conduct was in place.","titleseo":"policy\/spectrum-rules-likely-to-be-put-in-cold-freezer-due-to-ls-polls","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[{"author_name":"Anandita Singh Mankotia","author_link":"\/author\/479231328\/anandita-singh-mankotia","author_image":"https:\/\/etimg.etb2bimg.com\/authorthumb\/479231328.cms?width=100&height=100&hostid=268","author_additional":{"thumbsize":false,"msid":479231328,"author_name":"Anandita Singh Mankotia","author_seo_name":"anandita-singh-mankotia","designation":"Editor","agency":false}}],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"ET Bureau","artdate":"2014-03-22 12:11:23","lastupd":"2014-03-22 12:13:10","breadcrumbTags":["policy","Supreme Court","Deloitte","Rahul Khullar","Telecom Secretary","Farooqui","TRAI","spectrum"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"policy\/spectrum-rules-likely-to-be-put-in-cold-freezer-due-to-ls-polls"}}" data-authors="[" anandita singh mankotia"]" data-category-name="Policy" data-category_id="19" data-date="2014-03-22" data-index="article_1">
新德里消息:光谱分享和交易规则不会被公布,直到大选已经结束,这意味着印度的电信公司可能不得不搁置他们的战略规划,特别是任何整合计划将严重依赖于电视广播参与此类交易。
电信部长曼氏金融Farooqui告诉ET,电信部门还在研究的指导方针分享和交易,他们至少需要一个半月的比赛做好准备。
然而,单独一位政府高级官员说,美国要小心翼翼不发出新的规则,而模型的行为准则。
“我们不想通知的细节光谱分享和交易在选举之前,以免一些行业组织竞赛,政府干涉行为准则,”这位官员说。
规范整合的关键
准则是至关重要的,因为他们随着并购规则将为急需整合在一个支离破碎的电信行业,和促进最佳使用光谱,一种稀缺的自然资源。一旦政府通知规则,运营商将有自由决定是否收购一个公司或如果它会更成本有效的贸易或共享频谱。电视是最关键因素spectrumstarved国家的并购交易。
政府必须利用这段时间来解决似乎缺点什么分享指南草案为了鼓励运营商使用的选项,赫曼特Joshi说德勤哈斯金斯和销售。
“例如,电信行业希望3 g频谱被包括在共享因为他们付出了由市场价格,intra-circle共享被允许,”他说。
根据共享指南草案,电信公司将被允许在1800 Mhz带宽,900 Mhz和800 Mhz乐队,也只有在一个圆的运营商频谱,条款,有效地继续酒吧3 g intra-circle漫游电信运营商之间的协定。2100 Mhz乐队在印度被用于3 g。
分享指南草案还对频谱使用电荷(往下),由运营商视为过于沉重,他们说,他们将不得不支付费用共同的总频率之间共享它们。
这意味着,如果运营商为4.4 Mhz频段在服务区域和算子B相同数量的份额电波在一个特定的服务领域,他们将不得不共同支付8%往下的总量子谱由他们将8.8 Mhz。
尽管政府在这个问题上似乎无情的共享频谱在2100 Mhz的3 g带,据知情人士透露,印度电信监管局主席拉胡尔Khullar最近遇到电信首席执行官到达某种规定应对3 g intra-circle漫游的问题。
权威过去告诫政府实施一个“不公平”禁止运营商共享电视当政府无法满足该行业的频谱的要求。政府和行业在一个僵局/ 3 g intra-circle漫游,此事目前听到的最高法院。
一月份频谱交易,监管机构的建议——这需要通过政府允许运营商电波政府拍卖的贸易自2010年以来1%的交易费。贸易双方可以,然而,只有频谱两年之后从政府买下了它。
NEW DELHI: Spectrum<\/a> sharing and trading rules won't be unveiled until the general elections are over, which means India's telecom companies may have to put their strategic planning on hold, especially since any consolidation plans will be critically dependent on airwaves involved in such deals.
\n
Telecom Secretary<\/a> MF Farooqui<\/a> told ET that the telecom department was still working on the guidelines for both sharing and trading and it would take at least a month-and-a-half for them to be ready.
\n
\nHowever, a senior government official said separately that the department was going to play it safe by not issuing the new rules while the model code of conduct was in place.
\n
\n\"We don't want to notify the details of spectrum<\/a> sharing and trading before the elections, lest some industry body contests that the government has interfered with the code of conduct,\" the official said.
\n
\nNorms crucial for consolidation<\/strong>
\n
\nThe guidelines are crucial as they along with the mergers and acquisitions rules will pave the way for much-needed consolidation in a fragmented telecom industry, and facilitate optimal use of spectrum, a scarce natural resource. Once the government notifies the rules, operators will have the liberty to decide whether to acquire a company or if it would be more cost effective to trade or share spectrum. Airwaves are the most crucial element in an M&A deal in the spectrumstarved country.
\n
The government must use the time it has to address what appear to be shortcomings of the draft guidelines on sharing in order to encourage operators to use the option, said Hemant Joshi of Deloitte<\/a> Haskins & Sells.
\n
\n\"The telecom industry, for instance, would like 3G spectrum to be included in sharing since they have paid a market-determined price for the spectrum, and that intra-circle sharing be permitted,\" he said.
\n
\nAccording to the draft guidelines on sharing, telcos will be allowed to deal in bandwidth in the 1800 Mhz, 900 Mhz and 800 Mhz bands and that too only in a circle where both the operators hold the spectrum, a clause that effectively continues to bar the 3G intra-circle roaming pacts between telecom operators. The 2100 Mhz band is being used for 3G in India.
\n
\nThe draft sharing guidelines also impose a spectrum usage charge (SUC), regarded as too hefty by operators, who say they would have to pay the fee jointly on the total frequencies shared between them.
\n
\nThis means that if operator A with 4.4 Mhz spectrum in a service area and operator B with a similar amount share airwaves in a particular service area, they will have to jointly pay 8% SUC as the total quantum of spectrum held by them would be 8.8 Mhz.
\n
\n
\n
The authority has in the past admonished the government for imposing an \"unfair\" ban on operators sharing airwaves when the government is unable to meet the industry's spectrum requirement. The government and industry are in a stalemate over 3G intra-circle roaming and the matter is currently being heard in the Supreme Court<\/a>.
\n
\nOn spectrum trading, the regulator's recommendations in January — which need to be cleared by the government — allow operators to trade in airwaves auctioned by the government since 2010 for a 1% transaction fee. The two parties can, however, only trade in spectrum two years after having bought it from the government.\n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":32462059,"title":"DoT to test imported telecom gear, network elements locally","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/policy\/dot-to-test-imported-telecom-gear-network-elements-locally\/32462059","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"policy"}],"related_content":[],"msid":32476831,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"Spectrum rules likely to be put in cold freezer due to LS polls","synopsis":"A senior govt official said separately that the dept was going to play it safe by not issuing the new rules while the model code of conduct was in place.","titleseo":"policy\/spectrum-rules-likely-to-be-put-in-cold-freezer-due-to-ls-polls","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[{"author_name":"Anandita Singh Mankotia","author_link":"\/author\/479231328\/anandita-singh-mankotia","author_image":"https:\/\/etimg.etb2bimg.com\/authorthumb\/479231328.cms?width=100&height=100&hostid=268","author_additional":{"thumbsize":false,"msid":479231328,"author_name":"Anandita Singh Mankotia","author_seo_name":"anandita-singh-mankotia","designation":"Editor","agency":false}}],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"ET Bureau","artdate":"2014-03-22 12:11:23","lastupd":"2014-03-22 12:13:10","breadcrumbTags":["policy","Supreme Court","Deloitte","Rahul Khullar","Telecom Secretary","Farooqui","TRAI","spectrum"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"policy\/spectrum-rules-likely-to-be-put-in-cold-freezer-due-to-ls-polls"}}" data-authors="[" anandita singh mankotia"]" data-category-name="Policy" data-category_id="19" data-date="2014-03-22" data-index="article_1">
新德里消息:光谱分享和交易规则不会被公布,直到大选已经结束,这意味着印度的电信公司可能不得不搁置他们的战略规划,特别是任何整合计划将严重依赖于电视广播参与此类交易。电信部长曼氏金融Farooqui告诉ET,电信部门还在研究的指导方针分享和交易,他们至少需要一个半月的比赛做好准备。
然而,单独一位政府高级官员说,美国要小心翼翼不发出新的规则,而模型的行为准则。
“我们不想通知的细节光谱分享和交易在选举之前,以免一些行业组织竞赛,政府干涉行为准则,”这位官员说。
规范整合的关键
准则是至关重要的,因为他们随着并购规则将为急需整合在一个支离破碎的电信行业,和促进最佳使用光谱,一种稀缺的自然资源。一旦政府通知规则,运营商将有自由决定是否收购一个公司或如果它会更成本有效的贸易或共享频谱。电视是最关键因素spectrumstarved国家的并购交易。
政府必须利用这段时间来解决似乎缺点什么分享指南草案为了鼓励运营商使用的选项,赫曼特Joshi说德勤哈斯金斯和销售。
“例如,电信行业希望3 g频谱被包括在共享因为他们付出了由市场价格,intra-circle共享被允许,”他说。
根据共享指南草案,电信公司将被允许在1800 Mhz带宽,900 Mhz和800 Mhz乐队,也只有在一个圆的运营商频谱,条款,有效地继续酒吧3 g intra-circle漫游电信运营商之间的协定。2100 Mhz乐队在印度被用于3 g。
分享指南草案还对频谱使用电荷(往下),由运营商视为过于沉重,他们说,他们将不得不支付费用共同的总频率之间共享它们。
这意味着,如果运营商为4.4 Mhz频段在服务区域和算子B相同数量的份额电波在一个特定的服务领域,他们将不得不共同支付8%往下的总量子谱由他们将8.8 Mhz。
尽管政府在这个问题上似乎无情的共享频谱在2100 Mhz的3 g带,据知情人士透露,印度电信监管局主席拉胡尔Khullar最近遇到电信首席执行官到达某种规定应对3 g intra-circle漫游的问题。
权威过去告诫政府实施一个“不公平”禁止运营商共享电视当政府无法满足该行业的频谱的要求。政府和行业在一个僵局/ 3 g intra-circle漫游,此事目前听到的最高法院。
一月份频谱交易,监管机构的建议——这需要通过政府允许运营商电波政府拍卖的贸易自2010年以来1%的交易费。贸易双方可以,然而,只有频谱两年之后从政府买下了它。
NEW DELHI: Spectrum<\/a> sharing and trading rules won't be unveiled until the general elections are over, which means India's telecom companies may have to put their strategic planning on hold, especially since any consolidation plans will be critically dependent on airwaves involved in such deals.\n
Telecom Secretary<\/a> MF Farooqui<\/a> told ET that the telecom department was still working on the guidelines for both sharing and trading and it would take at least a month-and-a-half for them to be ready.
\n
\nHowever, a senior government official said separately that the department was going to play it safe by not issuing the new rules while the model code of conduct was in place.
\n
\n\"We don't want to notify the details of spectrum<\/a> sharing and trading before the elections, lest some industry body contests that the government has interfered with the code of conduct,\" the official said.
\n
\nNorms crucial for consolidation<\/strong>
\n
\nThe guidelines are crucial as they along with the mergers and acquisitions rules will pave the way for much-needed consolidation in a fragmented telecom industry, and facilitate optimal use of spectrum, a scarce natural resource. Once the government notifies the rules, operators will have the liberty to decide whether to acquire a company or if it would be more cost effective to trade or share spectrum. Airwaves are the most crucial element in an M&A deal in the spectrumstarved country.
\n
The government must use the time it has to address what appear to be shortcomings of the draft guidelines on sharing in order to encourage operators to use the option, said Hemant Joshi of Deloitte<\/a> Haskins & Sells.
\n
\n\"The telecom industry, for instance, would like 3G spectrum to be included in sharing since they have paid a market-determined price for the spectrum, and that intra-circle sharing be permitted,\" he said.
\n
\nAccording to the draft guidelines on sharing, telcos will be allowed to deal in bandwidth in the 1800 Mhz, 900 Mhz and 800 Mhz bands and that too only in a circle where both the operators hold the spectrum, a clause that effectively continues to bar the 3G intra-circle roaming pacts between telecom operators. The 2100 Mhz band is being used for 3G in India.
\n
\nThe draft sharing guidelines also impose a spectrum usage charge (SUC), regarded as too hefty by operators, who say they would have to pay the fee jointly on the total frequencies shared between them.
\n
\nThis means that if operator A with 4.4 Mhz spectrum in a service area and operator B with a similar amount share airwaves in a particular service area, they will have to jointly pay 8% SUC as the total quantum of spectrum held by them would be 8.8 Mhz.
\n
\n
\n\t <\/div> Even as the government appears to be unrelenting on the issue of sharing spectrum in the 3G band of 2100 Mhz, according to people familiar with the matter, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairman Rahul Khullar<\/a> recently met telecom CEOs to arrive at some sort of provision to address the issue of 3G intra-circle roaming.
\n
The authority has in the past admonished the government for imposing an \"unfair\" ban on operators sharing airwaves when the government is unable to meet the industry's spectrum requirement. The government and industry are in a stalemate over 3G intra-circle roaming and the matter is currently being heard in the Supreme Court<\/a>.
\n
\nOn spectrum trading, the regulator's recommendations in January — which need to be cleared by the government — allow operators to trade in airwaves auctioned by the government since 2010 for a 1% transaction fee. The two parties can, however, only trade in spectrum two years after having bought it from the government.\n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":32462059,"title":"DoT to test imported telecom gear, network elements locally","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/policy\/dot-to-test-imported-telecom-gear-network-elements-locally\/32462059","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"policy"}],"related_content":[],"msid":32476831,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"Spectrum rules likely to be put in cold freezer due to LS polls","synopsis":"A senior govt official said separately that the dept was going to play it safe by not issuing the new rules while the model code of conduct was in place.","titleseo":"policy\/spectrum-rules-likely-to-be-put-in-cold-freezer-due-to-ls-polls","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[{"author_name":"Anandita Singh Mankotia","author_link":"\/author\/479231328\/anandita-singh-mankotia","author_image":"https:\/\/etimg.etb2bimg.com\/authorthumb\/479231328.cms?width=100&height=100&hostid=268","author_additional":{"thumbsize":false,"msid":479231328,"author_name":"Anandita Singh Mankotia","author_seo_name":"anandita-singh-mankotia","designation":"Editor","agency":false}}],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"ET Bureau","artdate":"2014-03-22 12:11:23","lastupd":"2014-03-22 12:13:10","breadcrumbTags":["policy","Supreme Court","Deloitte","Rahul Khullar","Telecom Secretary","Farooqui","TRAI","spectrum"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"policy\/spectrum-rules-likely-to-be-put-in-cold-freezer-due-to-ls-polls"}}" data-news_link="//www.iser-br.com/news/policy/spectrum-rules-likely-to-be-put-in-cold-freezer-due-to-ls-polls/32476831">
\n
The authority has in the past admonished the government for imposing an \"unfair\" ban on operators sharing airwaves when the government is unable to meet the industry's spectrum requirement. The government and industry are in a stalemate over 3G intra-circle roaming and the matter is currently being heard in the Supreme Court<\/a>.
\n
\nOn spectrum trading, the regulator's recommendations in January — which need to be cleared by the government — allow operators to trade in airwaves auctioned by the government since 2010 for a 1% transaction fee. The two parties can, however, only trade in spectrum two years after having bought it from the government.\n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":32462059,"title":"DoT to test imported telecom gear, network elements locally","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/policy\/dot-to-test-imported-telecom-gear-network-elements-locally\/32462059","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"policy"}],"related_content":[],"msid":32476831,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"Spectrum rules likely to be put in cold freezer due to LS polls","synopsis":"A senior govt official said separately that the dept was going to play it safe by not issuing the new rules while the model code of conduct was in place.","titleseo":"policy\/spectrum-rules-likely-to-be-put-in-cold-freezer-due-to-ls-polls","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[{"author_name":"Anandita Singh Mankotia","author_link":"\/author\/479231328\/anandita-singh-mankotia","author_image":"https:\/\/etimg.etb2bimg.com\/authorthumb\/479231328.cms?width=100&height=100&hostid=268","author_additional":{"thumbsize":false,"msid":479231328,"author_name":"Anandita Singh Mankotia","author_seo_name":"anandita-singh-mankotia","designation":"Editor","agency":false}}],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"ET Bureau","artdate":"2014-03-22 12:11:23","lastupd":"2014-03-22 12:13:10","breadcrumbTags":["policy","Supreme Court","Deloitte","Rahul Khullar","Telecom Secretary","Farooqui","TRAI","spectrum"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"policy\/spectrum-rules-likely-to-be-put-in-cold-freezer-due-to-ls-polls"}}" data-news_link="//www.iser-br.com/news/policy/spectrum-rules-likely-to-be-put-in-cold-freezer-due-to-ls-polls/32476831">
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