{"id":919348,"date":"2025-04-04T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=919348"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T02:59:34","slug":"scindia-rules-out-spectrum-auction-for-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/04\/scindia-rules-out-spectrum-auction-for-allocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Scindia rules out spectrum auction for allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia told Parliament on Thursday that satellite spectrum would be allocated administratively rather than through auction, aligning with global practices. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot auction an asset, which is not fully in our control. This applies not only to India but all countries,&#8221; Scindia said, explaining the technical differences between mobile and satellite communications. <\/p>\n<p>During the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, the minister elucidated that mobile technology operates on low-frequency waves that dissipate in the atmosphere, necessitating spectrum auctions to prevent signal interference. In contrast, satellite communications use higher frequencies transmitted directly like a laser through fixed antennas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia told Parliament on Thursday that satellite spectrum would be allocated administratively rather than through auction, aligning with global practices. &#8220;We cannot auction an asset, which is not fully in our control. This applies not only to India but all countries,&#8221; Scindia said, explaining the technical differences between mobile and satellite communications. During the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, the minister elucidated that mobile technology operates on low-frequency waves that dissipate in the atmosphere, necessitating spectrum auctions to prevent signal interference. In contrast, satellite communications use higher frequencies transmitted directly like a laser through fixed [&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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919348","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=919348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}