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New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India<\/a> (Trai) has started meetings with telcos, satellite players and officials in the Department of Telecommunications<\/a> (DoT) to seek views on satellite spectrum<\/a> and the allocation methodology for these airwaves.

Trai’s string of upcoming meetings is a run-up to a comprehensive consultation paper—due out in the next two to three months—that will discuss all spectrum allocation scenarios, including auction, administrative, reserving of some quantum for satellite services or even mix-use and what should be the pricing for different sets of allocation mechanisms.

The regulator is also expected to meet officials in the Department of Space (DoS) and ministry of information and broadcasting (I&B) before issuing the discussion paper.

Trai is holding these meetings to gain better insights around satellite spectrum and global best practices around the allocation mechanism. It is also trying to understand the rationale given by various players around auction vs administrative allocation of such airwaves.

Officials aware of the matter said that while DoT is pitching for auction of spectrum, the regulator needs to examine the issue in a more holistic way.

“DoT is not the only stakeholder in space communications. There is also the DoS and I&B ministry… Trai must take a call that will guard everybody’s interests,” said an official, who didn’t wish to be named.

Promoting a self-sufficient space sector has been a priority of the government and the much awaited spacecom policy<\/a> is likely soon. So far, satellite spectrum, as in the KU\/KA bands, is given administratively but there has been growing demand from telecom companies—primarily Reliance Jio<\/a> and Vodafone Idea<\/a>—that allocation of spectrum should be through auctions only.

“We are in the listening mode. We want to get as much knowledge as we can, so that we can frame the consultation paper in a way that addresses all questions. A similar exercise was conducted for the 5G spectrum auction process,” said a Trai official.

The DoT has already sent a reference to Trai, seeking recommendations on the pricing and allocation mechanism of satellite spectrum. It has also provided information on spectrum availability in various bands like KU\/KA.

There has been a clear divide among telecom operators over allocation of spectrum for satcoms. Bharti Enterprises<\/a> chairman Sunil Mittal has categorically stated several times that satellite broadband spectrum should be given administratively. Mittal has even pointed out that this is the practice in the rest of the world.

But Reliance<\/a> Jio and Vodafone Idea<\/a> are opposing it.

Bharti Global-backed OneWeb<\/a>, Reliance Jio’s JV with Luxembourg-based SES, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, Viasat, Elon Musk’s Starlink, and the Tata-Telesat combine are among those readying to enter India’s relatively nascent fast broadband-from-space services segment.

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New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India<\/a> (Trai) has started meetings with telcos, satellite players and officials in the Department of Telecommunications<\/a> (DoT) to seek views on satellite spectrum<\/a> and the allocation methodology for these airwaves.

Trai’s string of upcoming meetings is a run-up to a comprehensive consultation paper—due out in the next two to three months—that will discuss all spectrum allocation scenarios, including auction, administrative, reserving of some quantum for satellite services or even mix-use and what should be the pricing for different sets of allocation mechanisms.

The regulator is also expected to meet officials in the Department of Space (DoS) and ministry of information and broadcasting (I&B) before issuing the discussion paper.

Trai is holding these meetings to gain better insights around satellite spectrum and global best practices around the allocation mechanism. It is also trying to understand the rationale given by various players around auction vs administrative allocation of such airwaves.

Officials aware of the matter said that while DoT is pitching for auction of spectrum, the regulator needs to examine the issue in a more holistic way.

“DoT is not the only stakeholder in space communications. There is also the DoS and I&B ministry… Trai must take a call that will guard everybody’s interests,” said an official, who didn’t wish to be named.

Promoting a self-sufficient space sector has been a priority of the government and the much awaited spacecom policy<\/a> is likely soon. So far, satellite spectrum, as in the KU\/KA bands, is given administratively but there has been growing demand from telecom companies—primarily Reliance Jio<\/a> and Vodafone Idea<\/a>—that allocation of spectrum should be through auctions only.

“We are in the listening mode. We want to get as much knowledge as we can, so that we can frame the consultation paper in a way that addresses all questions. A similar exercise was conducted for the 5G spectrum auction process,” said a Trai official.

The DoT has already sent a reference to Trai, seeking recommendations on the pricing and allocation mechanism of satellite spectrum. It has also provided information on spectrum availability in various bands like KU\/KA.

There has been a clear divide among telecom operators over allocation of spectrum for satcoms. Bharti Enterprises<\/a> chairman Sunil Mittal has categorically stated several times that satellite broadband spectrum should be given administratively. Mittal has even pointed out that this is the practice in the rest of the world.

But Reliance<\/a> Jio and Vodafone Idea<\/a> are opposing it.

Bharti Global-backed OneWeb<\/a>, Reliance Jio’s JV with Luxembourg-based SES, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, Viasat, Elon Musk’s Starlink, and the Tata-Telesat combine are among those readying to enter India’s relatively nascent fast broadband-from-space services segment.

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