Earlier, the Department of Telecom had distributed the radio frequency in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Orissa.
Various new players including Videocon-promoted Datacom, realty major Unitech, Swan Telecom and Loop Telecom have been given start-up GSM spectrum of 4.4 MHz in the Andhra Pradesh circle, sources said.
They said that Communication and IT Minister A Raja today signed the file giving green signal to allocate GSM radio frequency to new players.
The DoT is also looking at other circles where spectrum is available in abundance and can be allocated to all the aspirants simultaneously.
Some of the players, especially Idea Cellular and Spice Communications, had questioned Raja's first-come-first-serve policy to allocate spectrum, saying this should be done on the basis of application and not the payment of required fees.
Besides Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, according to sources, spectrum for all is available in circles of Karnataka, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Kolkata and the minister may distribute it soon.
