12 January,2009 04:24 PM IST | | PTI
Unitech Wireless, the telecom arm of real estate major Unitech, on Monday said it has received GSM spectrum in the West Bengal.
The Department of Telecommunications has issued a letter to company's telecom subsidiary for allotment of 4.4 MHz of spectrum in 1,800 MHz GSM band in West Bengal service areas, Unitech said in a statement.
With this, the company has been allotted initial spectrum in 21 service areas of India out of 22. The company had earlier announced its plans to sell a 60 per cent stake in the telecom business to Norway's telecom major Telenor for Rs 6,120 crore.