The Empowered Group of Ministers on 3G is divided on the number of private players to be allowed as some members have demanded four players in each metro against the Telecom Department's suggestion of three operators.According to the minutes of the last meeting of the EGoM, few members felt that at least four blocks of 3G spectrum should be auctioned pan-Indian or at least at the very minimum in metros by moving two telecom PSUs- BSNL and MTNL – to some other frequency band to avoid oligopolistic structure which would need agreement of the defence.