{"id":188685,"date":"2022-04-13T00:41:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=188685"},"modified":"2022-04-13T00:41:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:11:27","slug":"disappointed-by-trai-recommendations-on-5g-spectrum-prices-too-high-says-coai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/disappointed-by-trai-recommendations-on-5g-spectrum-prices-too-high-says-coai\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointed by TRAI recommendations on 5G spectrum; Prices too high, says COAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, Apr 12 (PTI): Industry body COAI on Tuesday expressed deep disappointment over TRAI\u2019s recommendations on 5G and termed the spectrum pricing suggested by the regulator as \u201ctoo high\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Given the recent reforms for telecom sector announced by the government, these recommendations are \u201cone step backwards than forward\u201d towards building a digitally connected India, COAI said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Cellular Operators\u2019 Association of India (COAI) is an apex industry body and its members include Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, COAI said it is disappointed by TRAI recommendations on 5G spectrum bands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The spectrum pricing recommended by TRAI is too high, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThroughout the consultation process, industry had presented extensive arguments based on global research and benchmarks, for significant reduction in spectrum prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIndustry recommended 90 per cent lower price, and to see only about 35-40 per cent reduction recommended in prices, therefore is deeply disappointing,\u201d the association said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Apr 12 (PTI): Industry body COAI on Tuesday expressed deep disappointment over TRAI\u2019s recommendations on 5G and termed the spectrum pricing suggested by the regulator as \u201ctoo high\u201d. Given the recent reforms for telecom sector announced by the government, these recommendations are \u201cone step backwards than forward\u201d towards building a digitally connected India, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-188685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}