{"id":944164,"date":"2025-07-07T06:35:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944164"},"modified":"2025-07-07T06:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:14:30","slug":"regulator-rejects-dots-spectrum-stance-for-indian-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/regulator-rejects-dots-spectrum-stance-for-indian-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulator rejects DoT&#8217;s spectrum stance for Indian Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The telecom regulator has rejected the contention of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) that additional 5 MHz spectrum in premium 700 MHz band can be assigned to the Indian Railways only if the existing 5 MHz given to the national transporter has been utilised. <\/p>\n<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) also rejected the DoT\u2019s view that those airwaves be charged at an auction determined price (ADP). It said that since the railways requires spectrum for the purpose of enhancing safety and security, there is no justification for levying spectrum charges based on ADP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The telecom regulator has rejected the contention of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) that additional 5 MHz spectrum in premium 700 MHz band can be assigned to the Indian Railways only if the existing 5 MHz given to the national transporter has been utilised. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) also rejected the DoT\u2019s view that those airwaves be charged at an auction determined price (ADP). It said that since the railways requires spectrum for the purpose of enhancing safety and security, there is no justification for levying spectrum charges based on ADP.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944164","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=944164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}