India, Feb. 18 -- India's Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recently approved refarming 687 megahertz (MHz) of telecommunications spectrum to add more airwave capacity to the telecommunications industry landscape. The move is largely designed to fill up the necessary capacity for additional spectrum, which the domestic telecommunications firms have been after for some time now. However, while additional spectrum needs were kosher, not every party was satisfied with the move.

While the telecommunications ministry deemed the move essential and the domestic telecom industry lauded it, the technology industry, led by industry body Broadband India Forum (BIF), deemed the auctioning of airwaves in the 6 gigahertz (GHz) sp...