{"id":979564,"date":"2025-12-11T09:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979564"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:52:05","slug":"trai-suggests-capping-spectrum-charge-per-carrier-in-microwave-bands-at-0-1-of-agr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/trai-suggests-capping-spectrum-charge-per-carrier-in-microwave-bands-at-0-1-of-agr\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI suggests capping spectrum charge per carrier in microwave bands at 0.1% of AGR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday recommended that the spectrum charge per carrier in traditional microwave backhaul bands be capped at 0.1% of the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) in a bid to reduce backhaul costs for telcos.<\/p>\n<p>Backhaul spectrum carries voice and data between mobile towers and the core network of a service provider.<\/p>\n<p>This compares to the existing policy regime for the assignment of backhaul spectrum, in which the charge for the first carrier is capped at 0.15% of the AGR, followed by progressively higher costs for subsequent carriers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday recommended that the spectrum charge per carrier in traditional microwave backhaul bands be capped at 0.1% of the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) in a bid to reduce backhaul costs for telcos. Backhaul spectrum carries voice and data between mobile towers and the core network of a service provider. This compares to the existing policy regime for the assignment of backhaul spectrum, in which the charge for the first carrier is capped at 0.15% of the AGR, followed by progressively higher costs for subsequent carriers.<\/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-979564","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\/979564","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=979564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}