Vodafone Essar has asked the Ministry of Communications to outrightly reject new recommendations made by the country’s regulator TRAI on 2G spectrum issues.

“The entire industry is devastated by the illogical, retrograde and perverse recommendations. We call upon you to kindly intervene most urgently to ensure that these retrograde proposals of TRAI are summarily rejected by the Government,” said the company in a letter to the Ministry.

“It may be appreciated that the exorbitant 3G prices currently being discovered are driven by an artificially created scarcity where only 15-20 MHz out of 60 MHz is being auctioned in a market of 12-14 operators. Application of such “super 3G” prices would make the 2G business case absolutely unworkable and make it impossible for us to provide affordable 2G services,” said the Vodafone letter.