Industry bodies BIF and COAI fight over delicensing of E and V bands

The issue of delicensing E and V spectrum bands has divided industry associations with COAI, which includes telecom operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio as its members strongly opposing any such move while Broadband India Forum (BIF), which has Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Hughes, among others, as its members, supporting delicensing and light-touch regulation regime.

Incidentally, Reliance Jio is a member of both the associations.