A senior official of the telecom department has revealed that 5G spectrum auction could be held in May this year if the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) submits the 5G pricing recommendations in March , according to PTI. Previously, the 5G auction was rumoured to take place in July-August.
Read moreWho can participate in spectrum auction?
The three big telcos – Airtel, Vodafone Idea, and Reliance Jio will participate in the auction. The spectrum bought will be valid for 20 years.
Read moreWho gets the money from spectrum auctions?
Dating back to the PCS auction in the mid-1990s, more than $200 billion has been raised in a series of spectrum auctions. Where does this money go? The bulk of these auction proceeds have gone straight into the miasma of the U.S. Department of the Treasury .
Read moreWhat is the purpose of spectrum auction?
As per the government, the objective of this auction is to obtain a market determined price of all the spectrum blocks .
Read moreWhat is meant by spectrum sale?
A spectrum auction is a process whereby a government uses an auction system to sell the rights to transmit signals over specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum and to assign scarce spectrum resources .
Read moreIs spectrum and bandwidth same?
The difference between spectrum and bandwidth is that spectrum refers to the ‘entirety’ while bandwidth is a ‘sub-section’ of the spectrum . Spectrum refers to the wholesome of the quantity while bandwidth, on the other hand, is a portion of the entire spectrum. Bandwidth is a sub-section of a portion of spectrum.23 Haz 2021
Read moreWhat is the difference between frequency spectrum and bandwidth?
The spectrum of a signal is the range of frequencies contained in the signal. The bandwidth is the difference between the lowest and highest frequency in the spectrum . It is therefore the width of the spectrum and is a measure of the information carrying capacity of the signal.
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