New Delhi, Nov 07: The Supreme Court today deferred till Monday the hearing on the appeals filed by Cellular Operators' Association of India against a Telecom Tribunal verdict allowing WLL, even as basic operators withdrew their appeal against levying of additional entry fee for WLL mobile services. The cellular operators had last month filed an appeal in the apex court against Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal's (TDSAT) majority judgement dated August 8 which had allowed limited mobility or WLL services to basic operators.

COAI had sought upholding of TDSAT chairman's minority judgement which declared the service illegal.

"Large WLL (M) operators were offering full-fledged cellular mobile services with impunity and no corrective or punitive action had been taken against these violations", COAI had alleged at that time.

Bureau Report