New Delhi, Oct 27: Telecom regulator Trai today recommended imposing penalty on India's largest private sector basic telephony service provider, Reliance Infocomm, for offering mobility services almost similar to cellular phones, to its wireless phone (WLL) subscribers. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, while suggesting a single license for basic landline and cellular telephony, said that Reliance should pay additional penalty over and above the entry fee for already offering mobility services almost similar to cellular mobile services. Trai today suggested to the government a single license for basic and cellular telephony services. While the cellular telephony service providers are not required to pay any additional license fee for acquiring the single license called unified license, the basic operators would have to pay the difference of fee they paid and that of fourth cellular operator. The penalty on Reliance would be over and above this entry fee, Trai said.
Bureau Report