Vodafone's Indian unit spent $3 billion-plus in spectrum auction - source

(Reuters) - Vodafone Group's Indian unit has bought spectrum worth more than 200 billion rupees (2.36 billion pounds) in a government auction that ended on Thursday, a source with knowledge of developments told Reuters. India's telecoms ministry announced the results of the auction, which raised a total of $9.9 billion for the government, but did not immediately provide a breakdown of payments by individual operators. (Reporting by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by David Goodman)