New Delhi, Sept 17: Basic and cellular operators on Wednesday locked horns over the levying of additional entry fee for WLL mobile services as recommended by the Telecom Dispute Settlement and the Appellate Tribunal with the former opposing the move and the latter asking for compensations and levying additional fee. This comes within a day of the cellular operators demanding an independent agency to work out the one-time entry fee for basic operators to offer limited mobility.
At an open house organised by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, basic telecom players said that WLL mobile was nothing but the value-added service and it was very much part of their basic licence and there was no ground for any additional fee.
Citing an example of SMS by cellular operators, Mahender Nahata of HFCL said "cellular operators were never asked for any additional fee even as the SMS facility on cell phones finished the paging industry completely," according to a report.

"Same logic should be applied here also," he said and pointed out that six basic operators which were given licenses before the revised fee structure should be exempted from such fee in case the Trai recommends any additional fee. Bureau Report