{"id":826789,"date":"2024-06-27T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T04:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=826789"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:02:08","slug":"spectrum-auctions-end-with-muted-bidding-amid-strategy-shift-by-telcos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/27\/spectrum-auctions-end-with-muted-bidding-amid-strategy-shift-by-telcos\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectrum auctions end with muted bidding amid strategy shift by telcos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spectrum auctions ended on Wednesday with the Centre receiving bids worth just over \u20b911,000 crore as Reliance Jio, the biggest buyer of pan-India 5G spectrum in the previous round of auction, limited its purchase of airwaves in only two circles: Bihar and West Bengal. <\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel emerged as the largest spender in the auctions, spending \u20b96,857 crore to consolidate their holdings in subGHz spectrum bands. Spectrum in the subGHZ bands is best suited for mobile broadband services. Vodafone Idea, despite struggling with financial issues, spent \u20b93,510 crore to buy spectrum in 11 circles. Jio, which had bid over \u20b988,000 crore in the previous auction, spent only 973 crore this time, largely because it already has sufficient airwaves pan-India to offer 5G services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spectrum auctions ended on Wednesday with the Centre receiving bids worth just over \u20b911,000 crore as Reliance Jio, the biggest buyer of pan-India 5G spectrum in the previous round of auction, limited its purchase of airwaves in only two circles: Bihar and West Bengal. Bharti Airtel emerged as the largest spender in the auctions, spending \u20b96,857 crore to consolidate their holdings in subGHz spectrum bands. Spectrum in the subGHZ bands is best suited for mobile broadband services. Vodafone Idea, despite struggling with financial issues, spent \u20b93,510 crore to buy spectrum in 11 circles. Jio, which had bid over \u20b988,000 crore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}