Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister of information technology and communications, has termed the auction of telecom spectrum, which concluded on Wednesday, the “most successful” in India’s telecom history. He added contrary to perception, the auction wouldn’t lead to a substantial rise in mobile charges.“I am seeing a huge campaign that mobile rates will go up. A person very familiar with the telecom sector has given me an analysis. The spectrum will be with operators for 20 years. According to the analysis, the annual load on telecom operators will be about Rs 5,300 crore...and (it will lead to a rise of) 1.3 paise per minute for a call,” Prasad said.

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