New delhi, Oct 27: Telecom Regulator TRAI today recommended a single licesing system, called unified licesing regime, for basic landline and cellular telephony services. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India suggested to the Government replacement of existing licensing regime, where cellular and wireless (WLL) phone service providers pay different fees to provide telephony services, with a unified license under which both basic and cellular operators will be allowed to offer both type of services without the formality of acquiring a separate license. "The existing operators would have an option to continue under the present licensing regime (with present terms and conditions) or migrate to new unified access licesing regime in the existing circle," TRAI said. The license fee, service area, roll out obligation and performance bank guarantee under the new unified license regime will be the same as for the existing cellular service provider. The service provider migrating to unified regime would continue to provide wireless services in already allocated spectrum and no additional spectrum would be allocated under the migrated process. While cellular operators will not be required to pay any further license fee for migrating to the new regime, the entry fee for basic/WLL service providers would be the difference between the license fee paid by the fourth cellular operator in the circle and the charges already paid by them. Bureau Report