NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Trai is likely to allow sharing of all kind of airwaves held by telecom operators for mobile services, including spectrum allocated at old price of 1,658 crore.

"Trai is most likely to issue recommendation on spectrum sharing. It may allow sharing of spectrum allocated administratively but restrict telecom services to the ones allowed to be provided through those airwaves," a source told PTI.

At present, telecom operators are allowed to share passive infrastructure like mobile towers but not active infrastructure like spectrum.

Government had earlier in-principle approved sharing of only those spectrum under new licencing regime which have been purchased through spectrum auction to increase interest of bidders and enhance revenue generation in the auction.

It in-principle approved sharing of spectrum allocated without auction on condition that companies holding such airwaves will have to pay one-time spectrum charge which cumulatively amounted to about 30,000 crore for both GSM and CDMA spectrum as estimated by DoT last year.

Attractive steps like spectrum sharing and trading have been put in place to encourage incumbent players to migrate to new licensing regime and create balance between new entrants and old players.

The price of spectrum in last auction was about 5-times more compared to price of spectrum allocated under old licencing regime. The new regime was notified in August 2013 by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).

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