COAI reiterates demand for review of pricing of CDMA airwaves

GSM industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has escalated a war of letters by writing to the Telecom minister, reiterating its demand for a review of pricing of CDMA airwaves and reducing the 10 MHz cap on such spectrum, asserting that failure to do so would lead to violation of auction rules.
In his second letter to the government, this time to Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, on issues relating to 800 MHz spectrum, COAI Director General Rajan Mathews said while the M&A guidelines prescribe a 10 MHz cap for such airwaves, ´there is an additional proviso,´ that states ´relevant conditions pertaining to auction of that spectrum shall apply´.