A panel of ministers headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will meet on Monday to discuss the vacation of spectrum by government agencies, including the Defence ministry.
Earlier, the Telecom department had suggested that the Information and Broadcasting ministry, the Defence ministry and Space Department should vacate the spectrum which has been lying unused so that additional airwaves can be made available to telecom operators.
As per the MoU between DOT and Defence Ministry, the armed forces are to vacate 25 MHz of airwaves for 3G services and 20 units of airwaves for 2G services. Out of this, the Defence Ministry has vacated 15 MHz for 3G services and 15 MHz for 2G spectrum.
For acquiring the additional airwaves, the Telecom ministry had agreed to put in place an alternate communication network for defence services.
Published 04 March 2012, 20:09 IST