The outbreak of Coronavirus may contribute to the existing potential delay in the 'costly' 5G spectrum auction.

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Case pertains to a loan worth $925 million given to Ambani's now bankrupt Reliance Communications in February 2012; RCom repaid a portion of the loan, but defaulted on its payment obligations in February 2017

UVARC has reportedly placed bids worth Rs 16,000 crore for spectrum, real estate assets and data centres of RCom and Reliance Telecom Ltd, while RJio placed bids worth Rs 4,700 crore for tower and fibre assets of Reliance Infratel Ltd

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Currently, Huawei competes with Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and local OEMs in the Indian market. Local manufacturing of telecom equipment is low but there have been some attempts made in the recent past to promote indigenisation

Huawei's participation in the 5G trials in India, which is the next biggest telecom market after China, is one of the key topics in the India-China officials talks at various levels.

Ravi Shankar Prasad says India will not bar any equipment suppliers, such as China's Huawei, in the upcoming trials for 5G; we will encourage innovations in 5G, says the minister

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One of the most innovative aspects of 5G architecture is the reliance on 5G network slicing, which lets operators provide portions of their networks for specific customer uses cases

The telecom arm of Reliance Industries has placed the highest bidder of around Rs 3,600 crore for mobile tower and optical fibre assets of Reliance Infratel. Reliance Jio did not bid for RCom spectrum

Hopes have been raised after the government deferred upcoming spectrum payments for the next two financial years until March 2022

Director General of COAI Rajan S Mathews further added that the quantum of 5G spectrum being offered in India is insufficient as the industry is seeking 100 MHz per operator

Varde Partners, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Industries, UV Asset Reconstruction Company (UVARCL) are among the main contenders for RCom assets

Bharti Airtel, Bharti Infratel and private equity firm Varde Partners have already submitted their bids for assets of Reliance Communications, while Reliance Jio has sought extension of the asset sale deal deadline by another 10 days.

India must aim higher than $5 trillion. The most important thing is to improve the ICT infrastructure because 5G will not only support another G but also other verticals, said Arogyaswami Paulraj