New Delhi, Nov 13: Close on the heels of Reliance, a major telecom player Tatas today sought unified licences for seven circles including West Bengal, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Besides, Tata Teleservices also applied for conversion of two of their six existing basic telecom licences into unified regime, top officials of Department of Telecom (DoT) here. Telecom secretary Vinod Vaish said that" DoT has received request from Tatas to migrate to unified access services licence regime in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra...They will not have to pay any extra entry fee as the company had paid surplus in the past."
Reliance had paid Rs 1542 crore earlier this week for unified licences to enable conversion of their contentious WLL services into fully mobile services.
Bureau Report