The deadline of September 25 for submission of bids could be extended by a week or 10 days as DoT would look into aspects which were flagged as concerns by potential bidders
Current Affairs :-The telecom division is probably going to push, by a week or 10 days, the due date for accommodation of offers for reserving in an organization that will be entrusted to direct range sell off in different groups, including 5G, as it intends to change qualification standards to guarantee most extreme investment by imminent barkers.
The legislature had welcomed offers for choice of a salesperson, for the closeout of 8000 MHz of range at a beginning cost of once again Rs 5.7 trillion. The first due date for accommodation of offers was September 25, and that for finish of barker was October 10.
The Department of Telecom (DoT) is, in any case, presently reevaluating the qualification criteria following input from planned barkers at a pre offered gathering held not long ago, and as needs be a portion of the perspectives could be changed, an administration source said.
One such criteria that requires sole bidder, or lead accomplice (if there should arise an occurrence of a consortium) to have a normal yearly turnover of Rs 100 crore in most recent 3 years, is being reexamined so it isn’t prohibitive, the source told PTI. Some different angles, which were hailed as worries by potential bidders, are being investigated also.
Consequently the due date of September 25 for accommodation of offers could be reached out by a week or 10 days, which means the conclusion of organization which rises as the fruitful bidder also will be pushed back by a comparable time span.
In front of the new due date, the DoT will issue explanations and changes to the Request for Proposal or the offer report and give “reasonable time” to the intrigued offices to put their offers.
This, DoT trusts, will guarantee a more extensive interest and address the authentic worries that were raised by different gatherings.
The administration has clarified that it intends to hold range barters either before the current year’s over or ahead of schedule one year from now, despite the fact that the monetarily focused on industry clasping under high obligation, contends that proposed costs are excessively expensive and extreme.
The business fights that the normal cost of 5G band sold in four nations – South Korea, Spain, the UK and Italy-turns out to be Rs 84 crore/MHz, while TRAI suggested cost (under DoT’s thought) for a similar band is 5 to multiple times higher at Rs 492 crore/MHz.
Industry body COAI said on Tuesday that its part organizations have shown hesitance in grabbing 5G range in the up and coming government-sorted out clearance of radiowaves, worried over high costs and less-then-sufficient quantum. The Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) has anyway kept up that there could be a few takers for 4G range in the barterings.
Aditi Mehta 