[march]What are spectrum auctions? Flashcards

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What?

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  • Cellphone/telephone vaprun ekmekanshi bolnyasathi doghancha signal connect hona important ahe.->ha signal airwave var paathvala jato,paathvatanna to veg-veglya frequencies var paathvala jato to avoid any kind of interference.
  • Union government owns all the publicly available assets within the geographical boundaries of the country, which also include airwaves.
  • To sell these assets to companies willing to set up the required infrastructure to transport these waves from one end to another, the central government through the DoT auctions these airwaves from time to time.
  • These airwaves are called spectrum, which is subdivided into bands which have varying frequencies.
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What is frequency of spectrum?

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Frequency is a measure of the number of times the waves repeat themselves in a second.

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Pros & cons of low frequency transmission?

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  • can travel greater distances

- less data can be transmitted

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Pros & cons of high frequency transmission?

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carry more data, but are poorer at penetrating obstacles i.e. travels less distance

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