Top three mobile operators spend 9.1 billion pounds in auction

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top three mobile operators scooped up almost 80 percent of the country's airwaves in fierce competition, spending $13.6 billion in the latest round of spectrum auctions that raised a record $17.6 billion. The three operators bought airwaves worth a total 855.75 billion rupees (9.1 billion pounds), or about 78 percent of the total airwaves sold in the auction, telecoms minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Thursday. India raised $17.6 billion from the