The Supreme Court yesterday admitted the government's plea seeking review of its 2G ruling that natural resources should be allotted to private companies only through auction.

The apex court, however, refused to hear affected telecom firms whose petitions for reconsideration of the verdict cancelling their licences were dismissed.

A bench of justices GS Singhvi and KS Radhakrishnan issued notices to the NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation and Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy, seeking their response on the government's plea seeking review of the February 2 judgement by which the first-come-first-serve policy was held as flawed.

The bench said, it will indicate a date for hearing the review petition in open court. The Court made it clear that the issuance of notice in the matter does not mean a stay on the operation of its directives in the judgement cancelling the licences and asking allocation of spectrum through auction.