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COAI moves SC against TDSAt`s verdict on WLL
New Delhi, Oct 28: Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) today filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the TDSAT`s majority judgement which had allowed limited mobility (WLL) services to basic operators.
"The appeal seeks to uphold the TDSAT chairman's
(minority) judgement which declared the service illegal and
stated that the government's decision to permit WLL (M) was
motivated by extraneous considerations to confer undue
benefits on the fixed operators", COAI said in a statement
here.
Till date, no authority had shown any inclination to
limit the service within the SDCA as mandated by the TDSAT
even as the industry had tried for three months to get
members' judgement enforced and had reposed faith in
government and the telecom regulator, T V Ramachandran, DG,
COAI said.
"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", he
said.
The Association of Basic Telecom Operators' (ABTO) appeal
to Supreme Court against the TDSAT judgement making COAI
respondents in the matter had also left the industry with no
other option but to take appropriate legal counteraction to
protect its stakeholders and consumers, Ramachandran said.
On August 08, this year, TDSAT had dismissed petition of
cellular operators challenging government's decision to allow
basic operators to offer WLL limited mobile services.
Bureau Report