{"id":135241,"date":"2012-08-06T23:12:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T23:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2012\/08\/06\/telecom-tariffs-to-rise\/"},"modified":"2012-08-06T23:12:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T23:12:58","slug":"telecom-tariffs-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/06\/telecom-tariffs-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecom tariffs to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Telecom tariffs would rise 37 to 49 paise per minute led by the cabinet\u2019s decision to fix the reserve price for the 2G spectrum auction at Rs.14,000 crore per 5 MHz in the 1,800 MHz band, an industry lobby for GSM operators said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which is also examining legal options against the government, said it will finalise its steps by the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>COAI also said this decision would lead to a rise in the industry debt to anywhere between Rs.3.7 lakh crore and Rs.5.4 lakh crore.<\/p>\n<p>The final reserve price set by the cabinet is lower than the Rs.18,000 crore suggested by sector regulator TRAI.&nbsp; According to COAI, the cabinet\u2019s decision will severely affect the sustainability of the sector and further add to the investment drought that it is witnessing of late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom tariffs would rise 37 to 49 paise per minute led by the cabinet\u2019s decision to fix the reserve price for the 2G spectrum auction at Rs.14,000 crore per 5 MHz in the 1,800 MHz band, an industry lobby for GSM operators said Monday. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which is also examining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}