Auction for 5G spectrum likely in April-May 2022: Vaishnaw

The auction for the 5G spectrum is likely to take place around April-May next year, Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.

While relief measures announced in September this year for telecom operators marked the first set of reforms, the government will bring out a series of further reforms and “telecom regulatory structure should change in coming 2-3 years”, Vaishnaw said.

Speaking at the ‘Times Now Summit 2021’, the minister said India’s telecom sector regulation has to be benchmarked with the global best and added that “so, we will come with a series of reforms in this, such that the global benchmark of regulations is achieved in India”.