(iv) On 16 June, 2008, the Government had constituted a Committee to review the issues of allocation of access (GSM/CDMA) spectrum and pricing under the Chairmanship of Additional Secretary, DoT with various Members including technical experts from different institutions, the Ministry of Defence as well as COAI and AUSPI. The report from the Committee was awaited at the time the Tribunal had given its judgment on petition no.286 of 2007. In that judgment as seen above, the Tribunal had directed the Government to appropriately revise the figures for the subscriber-linked criteria in light of the report of this Committee. It may also be clarified here that it is the same Committee which, in the reply filed by Union of India in the present case, is referred to as the Subodh Kumar Committee (presumably after the name of the Additional Secretary, DoT who was chairing the Committee). The Committee submitted its report on 13May, 2009 in which it took the view that under the UAS licence the Government was not obliged to provide to the licensee the additional spectrum of 1.8 MHz. Apparently, however, the Government did not accept the views and the recommendations of the Committee and on 7 July, 2009 referred the matter to TRAI for its recommendations in terms of clause 11(1)(a) of the TRAI Act. In paragraph 3 of the reference letter, it was stated as under:
