Bidding for Delhi tops even on second day of 3G auction

NEW DELHI: With another five clock rounds being completed, the price for round ten for Delhi service area rose to Rs 3.92 billion on the second day of bidding for the 3G auction.

With the total number of 10 clock rounds completed so far, the round price for Mumbai service area was Rs 3.77 billion.
 
The rest of Maharastra, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu clocked Rs 3.81 billion.

Assam, Orissa and Jammu & Kashmir, however, are yet to attract any takers for the slots.

The telecom operators in the race are Aircel, Bharti Airtel, Etisalat DB Telecom, Idea Cellular, Reliance, S Tel, Tata Teleservices, Videocon Telecommunications and Vodafone Essar.

With Sunday being a closed day, bidding will continue today.
The successful bidders would be allowed to start commercial 3G operations from 1 September.

Bidding for broadband and wireless access (BWA) auction is expected to commence today. 
 
A total of 11 telecom companies- Aircel Ltd, Augere (Mauritius), Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, Infotel Broadband Services, Qualcomm, Reliance WiMax, Spice Internet Service Provider, Tata Communications Internet Services, Tikona Digital Networks and Vodafone Essar – have qualified for the BWA auction, according to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).