New Delhi, Aug 11: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Monday said it will submit recommendations on TDSAT's directive to work out level playing field between cellular and basic operators offering WLL services, to the government in 2-3 months. "TDSAT has given four months to government. We will work out the details and submit our recommendations to government in the next two to three months," Trai chairman Pradip Baijal told PTI and added that Trai would work out details in "letter and spirit" of TDSAT's judgement.
Asked whether Trai would hold consultation with the stakeholders, he said "we have not yet decided on the modalities... we will come out with a consultation paper and may hold open house discussion at some of the places."
The consultation paper would be issued within the next two weeks, Baijal said and emphasised that this would be a separate exercise and would not clash with Trai’s proposed consultation on Unified Licence regime.
The main areas for working out level playing field include additional entry fee over and above what the basic telecom operators were paying, charges for additional spectrum and access charge among others, sources said.
TDSAT, last week, while allowing WLL mobile services, had asked government to initiate action on level playing field and complete the exercise within four months. Bureau Report