{"id":992583,"date":"2026-02-16T09:14:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992583"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:16:45","slug":"spectrum-title-tussle-airwaves-allocated-to-telcos-not-asset-says-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/spectrum-title-tussle-airwaves-allocated-to-telcos-not-asset-says-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectrum title tussle: Airwaves allocated to telcos not asset, says Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of India has ruled that telecom spectrum is a sovereign asset owned by the government for the benefit of citizens, and cannot be claimed as property by telecom companies or their lenders. <\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justices Pamidighantam S. Narasimha and Atul S. Chandurkar held that spectrum is a \u201cmaterial resource of the community\u201d and must serve the common good. Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) only have a licence to use spectrum \u2014 not ownership rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of India has ruled that telecom spectrum is a sovereign asset owned by the government for the benefit of citizens, and cannot be claimed as property by telecom companies or their lenders. A bench of Justices Pamidighantam S. Narasimha and Atul S. Chandurkar held that spectrum is a \u201cmaterial resource of the community\u201d and must serve the common good. Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) only have a licence to use spectrum \u2014 not ownership rights.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992583","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=992583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}