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India Minister: To Stick To 3G Bandwidth Auction Schedule



NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- India's federal government will stick to the schedule for the proposed auction of third generation, or 3G, radio bandwidth, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan said Thursday.

The government had said earlier it will launch electronic auctions Jan. 14 to allot four slots of bandwidth for 3G mobile phone services in most parts of the country, and has set a base price of INR35 billion for one such slot.

-By Mukesh Jagota, Dow Jones Newswires; 91-9845104173; rumman.ahmed@ dowjones.com


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