High spectrum prices have been a problem in the global telecom industry, nearly bankrupting some major service providers who overpaid for 3G spectrum. That has been a rather frequent problem in India, for example.
It looks like high prices still are an issue for India. India has the highest unit pricing of 5G spectrum in the 3.4GHz-to-3.8GHz band, for example.
Indian operators might have to pay close to four times more than South Korean operators for 100MHz of spectrum.
As always, there are conflicting interests. Government officials see spectrum sales as an important revenue source. For mobile operators it is a necessary cost of doing business.
The Indian government expects to raise as much as 5.83 trillion rupees ($83.8 billion) from the 5G spectrum sale. That is way more than the $48 billion spent by all operators on spectrum since 2010.
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