Tag: SPECTRUM AUCTIONS

Bharti Airtel taps market debt to retire DoT dues

| Sreejiraj Eluvangal

With interest rates at multi-year lows, Bharti Airtel has used money raised from the market to prepay liabilities associated with its spectrum purchases during the auction of 2014. Under India’s spectrum auction rules, winners can opt to pay the majority of their obligations in the form of instalments over a period 10 years or more, […]

SPECTRUM AUCTION 2016: Vodafone seen having bought pan-India 4G spectrum in final results

| Sreejiraj Eluvangal

Though Vodafone has not revealed its purchases yet, the pattern of announcements so far indicates that the company has purchased 4G spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band across India. The reason for this conclusion is that Bharti Airtel has been successful in buying 10 MHz (half of all) 2.3 GHz spectrum in most circles. 2.3 […]