Spectrum allocation delinked from licences

New Delhi: The Government today reiterated its decision that it will not award UAS licences linked with spectrum and all future licences will be Unified Licences and allocation of spectrum will be delinked from the licence.

Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Milind Deora informed Rajya Sabha that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), in its 11 May 2010 recommendations on Spectrum Management and Licensing Framework, had said that future licences should be unified licences and that spectrum should be delinked from the licence.

The Minister said the decision to delink spectrum allocation from licences had been taken after a Government – constituted committee under the Chairmanship of Member (Technology) Telecom commission to examine the above Trai recommendations had submitted its recommendations and they were considered by Telecom Commission.