The Department of Telecom today issued an 'information memorandum' containing details of spectrum auction which will start from November 12.

Earlier, the Supreme Court today extended the time for completing the auction of spectrum by January 11, 2013, from earlier deadline of August 31.

According to the information memorandum issued by the DoT, notices to invite application will be issued on September 28 for two different airwaves band used for mobile telephony and companies interested in auction will have to submit their applications by October 19.
DoT will first auction airwaves used for wireless telecom services in 1,800 Mhz band that are at present used for 2G GSM mobile telephone services.

The department will start auction process of 800 Mhz band spectrum, currently used for CDMA-based mobile services, two days after completion of bidding for 1,800 Mhz band.