In a communications to submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in its consultation on spectrum pricing and valuation Anil Ambani controlled Reliance Communications has said that it is against any rethinking by the government on refarming of 900MHz spectrum.

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It said that no incumbent operator can be allowed to retain refarmed spectrum in an unfair, discriminatory and inconsistent manner.
 
It said that the issue has been settled and the complete block of 900 MHz airwaves is required to be put to auction.

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Maintaining that it would seriously impact CDMA services, RCom also requested the regulator not to consider the proposed extended GSM band.

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“CDMA acceptance in India is already lower because choice of CDMA devices is less and prices are higher compared to GSM devices. In this background, if extended GSM (EGSM) band is culled out from the CDMA spectrum band, the CDMA services will die prematurely impairing billions of dollars of investment and services to about 75 million subscribers,” RCom pointed out.

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