Govt to seek Trai views on annual spectrum auction

Last auction had seen a muted response leading to only Rs 65,789 cr worth of radiowaves being sold

Terming India as a “spectrum supermarket”, Telecom Secretary J S Deepak on Tuesday said the government plans to auction radiowaves every year to allow operators to pick and choose what they want.

“In 2016, we put all the spectrum and we will do that in future also... They (players) can pick and choose what they want and the rest of it that remains, we can sell again and again and again... We are looking to do spectrum auction every year,” Deepak told reporters on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress here.

The operators should never have this feeling of