Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw asks telcos to gear up for 5G launch
The Hindu
The DoT has received payment of around ₹17,876 crore from service providers — Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, Adani Data Networks and Vodafone Idea for 5G spectrum they won in a recent auction.
Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on August 18 asked telecom service providers to gear up for 5G launch, post the issuance of spectrum allocation letters.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued spectrum assignment letters on the same day the successful bidders of radio waves made upfront payments.
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"5G Update: Spectrum assignment letter issued. Requesting TSPs to prepare for 5G launch," Mr. Vaishnaw wrote on a social media platform.
The DoT has received payment of around ₹17,876 crore from service providers — Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, Adani Data Networks and Vodafone Idea for spectrum they won in a recent auction.
The country's biggest ever auction of telecom spectrum received a record ₹1.5 lakh crore worth of bids, with Mukesh Ambani's Jio cornering nearly half of all the airwaves sold with a ₹87,946.93 crore bid.
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