{"id":958364,"date":"2025-08-29T08:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958364"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:42:34","slug":"dot-auctions-%e2%82%b917-23-lakh-cr-spectrum-sells-only-%e2%82%b95-64-lakh-cr-with-32-7-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/29\/dot-auctions-%e2%82%b917-23-lakh-cr-spectrum-sells-only-%e2%82%b95-64-lakh-cr-with-32-7-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT auctions \u20b917.23 lakh cr spectrum, sells only \u20b95.64 lakh cr with 32.7% efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) put spectrum worth \u20b917.23 lakh crore (at reserve price) under auction from 2010-2024 but managed to sell worth only \u20b95.64 lakh crore, leaving airwaves worth nearly \u20b911.6 lakh crore unsold, an overall revenue efficiency of 32.7%. <\/p>\n<p>As per an analysis done by the DoT\u2019s wireless advisor VJ Christopher, of all spectrum auctions, strong proceeds from the high value 3G auction in 2010 may have inflated expectations, leading to overly optimistic revenue projections in subsequent auctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) put spectrum worth \u20b917.23 lakh crore (at reserve price) under auction from 2010-2024 but managed to sell worth only \u20b95.64 lakh crore, leaving airwaves worth nearly \u20b911.6 lakh crore unsold, an overall revenue efficiency of 32.7%. As per an analysis done by the DoT\u2019s wireless advisor VJ Christopher, of all spectrum auctions, strong proceeds from the high value 3G auction in 2010 may have inflated expectations, leading to overly optimistic revenue projections in subsequent auctions.<\/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-958364","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\/958364","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=958364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}