India declines direct spectrum allocations for private enterprise 5G India is continuing to prohibit direct spectrum allocations to enterprises for private 5G and Industry 4.0 for now, unlike most other major industrial markets apart from China. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has instead recommended that leases for enterprise-owned private 5G networks should be controlled by incumbent mobile network operators, which will be obliged to make local spectrum provisions to enterprises. Trai has urged key MNOs, primarily Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea, to serve enterprises either by sub-letting local spectrum to them, or by providing slices as-a-service from their public airwaves, whether newly acquired in the upcoming auction or “liberalized” from their existing holdings. The government is set…