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The bids for these two service areas were on Thursday six times the base price. Opposition members in Parliament are demanding the resignation of communications minister A. Raja, since last week, alleging corruption and favoritism in the award of the 2G licenses. Sign Out Sign In Register. Latest Insider. Check out the latest Insider stories here. More from the IDG Network.

Current mobile players dominate India 3G auction. Trai has recommended three sets of frequency bands - mhz, mhz and 2. CDMA operators are free to bid both in the 2. The pricing of these two bands is linked to the auction in the 2.

And if there is more than one claimant in the MHz band, the reserve price will be half of that arrived at in the 2. Another rider is that if the highest bid is a quarter more than the lowest, the lowest bidder has to raise its bid to 75 per cent of the winning bid. But CDMA operators are likely to face problems. Pricing has been a cause of concern. Spectrum auctions ran into billions of euros in Europe.

In Europe, spectrum licensing fees were collected years before the 3G service was developed and it required huge investments to build 3G networks, hitting mobile operators' margins. However, in Japan and South Korea, spectrum licensing fees were not applicable as the focus of these countries were national IT infrastructure development. Trial spectrum has been given for a period of one month.