COAI urges Trai to revisit recommendation

As per Trai's latest data, Reliance Jio lost 3.66 million mobile subscribers (gross base 40.27 crore) in February, 2022 while VIL lost 1.53 million subscribers (gross base 26.35 crore). Bharti Airtel added 1.59 million subscribers (gross base 35.8 crore). On active subscriber front, Jio added 10 million active subscribers (active base 37.86 crore). Bharti Airtel gained 1.2 million active subscribers (active base 35.1 crore) while Vodafone Idea continues to lose active subscriber with active subscriber loss of 2.9 million (active base 22.6 crore)

Trai has recommended ~35.6% cut from its earlier proposed base price for the auction of 3300-3670 MHz band, a prime spectrum for 5G networks.  It has recommended a base price of Rs 317 crore/ Mhz for a pan-India basis vs. previously recommended pricing of Rs 492 crore, for the same. Thus, outgo for 100 Mhz of pan India 5G spectrum would be ~Rs 31700 crore. Similarly, 700 Mhz spectrum, pricing has been cut by 40.2% to Rs 3927 crore/Mhz for pan-India vs. Rs 6568, earlier, with total outgo for 10 Mhz (optimum requirement) pegged at Rs 39700 Mhz vs. Rs 65680 crore, earlier. Other measures such as easing payment terms and rationalising spectrum caps (doing away with pan-India cap of 33% and pegging band wise cap at 40% vs. 50%, earlier)