The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will again approach the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for the latter’s recommendations on CDMA spectrum base price.

The next round of spectrum auction which was scheduled to take place in the second week of January will commence on January 21.

The reason for the delay is the difference of opinion on the reserve price for the 800 Mhz band between the telecom department and the TRAI and latter will take 15 days submit its proposals on base price.

Last week the EGoM asked TRAI to suggest a base price for the 800 MHz spectrum, which is used by CDMA operators such as Sistema.

A high-power ministerial panel, on Friday, approved hiking by up to 25 per cent the reserve or start price for the auction of mobile phone spectrum in January.

“We look forward to Trai to fix the  reserve price for the 800-MHz spectrum band at a reasonable level and in the same ratio as decided by EGoM in the previous auction in March 2013 so that concurrent auction of 800 MHz along with 900 and 1800 MHz could be conducted early next year”, Sistema in a statement said.