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Grameenphone and Robi Axiata Limited, two mobile phone operators in the country, squabbled over a spectrum auction on Monday. The auction will be held from 1.30 pm to 9.45 pm with the attitude that no one will give anyone a discount. The price of waves continues to rise incredibly. Grameenphone won the five megahertz wave base price on the 2100 MHz band, which was ৭ 26 million per megahertz, reaching ৬ 48.75 million at 9:15 pm. This is the first competition of its kind in the country between mobile operators with wave auctions.
The wave of auctions for mobile phone operators began yesterday at the Intercontinental Hotel in the capital. Four operators from the country participated in the auction.
The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Mustafa Jabbar, the President of BTRC, Shyam Sundar Sikder, and executive officials of the operators were also present on the occasion. The director general of the BTRC Spectrum Division, Brigadier General Shahidul Alam, led the auction.
The much-talked about auction in the telecommunications sector began at 11 am in the presence of concerned officials from four mobile operators in the country. Although all blocks of the 1800 MHz band and three blocks of the 2100 MHz band were sold at the auction, the auction battle between the last 5 MHz block of the 2100 MHz band was frozen between Grameenphone and Robi. Banglalink moved to the beginning of the auction process for this block. And Teletalk moved around 4pm.
According to the BTRC, the base price for this year’s auction is 1 MHz for the 1800 MHz band at £ 31 million for 15 years and 1 MHz for the £ 28 million 2100 MHz band for 15 years. years. According to the demand of the wave operators in the 2016 auction, they were given the opportunity to accept the assignment for the duration of the 2-G or 3-G or 4-G license.
The waves received in this auction can be used for a period of 5.59 years from the award date and 25 percent of the total charge must be paid before March 22, adding the corresponding VAT to the applicable charge. The temporary wave allowance will be issued after the payment of this charge. At a rate of 15 percent per annum each year from the date of issuance of the wave allocation and the remaining 75 percent must be paid in five installments within five years. In the auction, 6.4 in the 1600 MHz band and 20 MHz in the 2100 MHz band, a total of 26.4 MHz waves were available. Government revenue from this will be around three billion rupees. including VAT.
In the 12-hour auction, Grameenphone sold 0.8 MHz at ৮ 31 million per MHz from the 1800 MHz band and five MHz at ০০ 29 million per MHz from the 2100 MHz band to US ৭ 29 million per MHz and 47, 75 MHz by MHz. Got that. As a result, the Grameenphone current wave in the 1800 MHz band increased from 19.8 MHz to 20 MHz and the Grameenphone current wave in the 2100 MHz band increased from 10 MHz to 20 MHz.
Robi has received 5.6 MHz from the 1800 MHz band and five MHz from the 2100 MHz band at a cost of মিল 29 million per MHz. In the 1800 MHz band, Robi’s current wave increased from 16.4 MHz to 20 MHz and in the 2100 MHz band, Robi’s current wave increased from 10 MHz to 15 MHz.
Banglalink has received 4.4 MHz from the 1600 MHz band and 5 MHz from the 2100 MHz band. As a result, the current wave of Banglalink in the 1800 MHz band increased from 15.6 MHz to 20 MHz and the current wave of Banglalink in the 2100 MHz band increased from 10 MHz to 15 MHz.
Teletalk participated in a very competitive auction on the 2100 MHz band but was unable to buy any waves in the end. In this situation, in the 2100 MHz band, Teletalk will have to continue its service activities using the current 10 MHz wave.
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