{"id":965354,"date":"2025-10-01T08:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965354"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:01:31","slug":"govt-to-auction-spectrum-in-10-bands-including-upper-6-ghz-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/01\/govt-to-auction-spectrum-in-10-bands-including-upper-6-ghz-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to auction spectrum in 10 bands including upper 6 GHz for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The telecom regulator has commenced the exercise for the next round of spectrum auction through which the government aims to sell airwaves in nearly 10 bands, including the upper 6 GHz band, which will be sold for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>As the majority of airwaves remained unsold in the past two auctions, the regulator wants to deliberate ways to make the process more lucrative for prospective buyers, which may also include firms that are not licensed telecom operators. To enhance competition and mitigate over-supply, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is set to discuss with stakeholders if there is a need to review the spectrum auction method and design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The telecom regulator has commenced the exercise for the next round of spectrum auction through which the government aims to sell airwaves in nearly 10 bands, including the upper 6 GHz band, which will be sold for the first time. As the majority of airwaves remained unsold in the past two auctions, the regulator wants to deliberate ways to make the process more lucrative for prospective buyers, which may also include firms that are not licensed telecom operators. To enhance competition and mitigate over-supply, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is set to discuss with stakeholders if [&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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965354","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\/965354","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=965354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}