The Chief Vigilance Commission (CVC), has asked the department of telecom (DoT) to provide further details on its first-come-first-served policy adopted for 2G spectrum allocation to new entrants.

Asking DoT to explain why it had picked the recommendations of Trai in parts for 2G policies, the CVC also sought to know why the DoT decided to treat September 25, 2007 as the cut-off date for receiving applications for new licences as opposed to originally announced date of October 1, 2007.

“Out of 212 applications received, only 18 applicants were considered for the issue of letters of intent (for the licence) ‘as an appropriate decision of the competent authority’ – this is not in order. ‘Appropriate decision of the competent authority’ is a vague phrase and is non-transparent. This may be clarified elucidating as to why a particular decision as taken is considered appropriate,” said CVC to DoT.

On the hoarding of spectrum the CVC sought to know the exact situation as it cited that while DoT states that there is no hoarding of spectrum, its counsel before the TDSAT has said that three major service providers have hoarded extra spectrum.

CVC said that the DoT has adopted a selective approach when it comes to consider recommendations from Trai instead of taking the recommendations as a whole in totality.