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India to auction 3G spectrum this year

Stuart O'Brien
India to auction 3G spectrum this year

Telecoms minister insists that licenses will be awarded before the end of 2009.

Reuters reports that India's much-anticipated 3G spectrum auction will happen before the year is out.

Asked whether/when the auction would take place, telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja said: "definitely... in 2009 itself".

The auction was originally supposed to happen back in January, but was delayed after the Department of Telecoms and the Finance Ministry fell out over pricing.

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