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COAI seeks GoM`s intervention on unified licence
New Delhi, Oct 29: A day before the crucial meeting of group of ministers on telecom, cellular operators today sought an immediate intervention of the group to reject TRAI`s recommendations on unification of licences and pleaded that TDSAT judgement restricting WLL mobility services within a local area be enforced.
New Delhi, Oct 29: A day before the crucial meeting
of group of ministers on telecom, cellular operators today
sought an immediate intervention of the group to reject TRAI's
recommendations on unification of licences and pleaded that
TDSAT judgement restricting WLL mobility services within a
local area be enforced.
In a letter to the Finance Minister Jaswant Singh who
heads the GoM, COAI termed TRAI's recommendations as
partisan, one-sided and said it exhibited a "predetermined
mindset".
"We believe that the TRAI recommendations have many serious flaws, shortcomings and contradictions and are aimed solely at legitimising full mobility for WLL operators," COAI said.
COAI alleged that despite clear countours of scope of WLL mobility, reliance had violated the norms of limited mobile services and built up a subscriber base of five million.
"In the face of the serious violations, it is inconceviable that a paltry penalty of less than Rs 500 crore is enough to balance the enormity of the violation," COAI said.
It said that the TRAI recommendation on unification of licences had rendered telecom tribunal's WLL judgement "irrelevant and infructuous".
COAI said that TRAI's move to unify only the basic and cellular licences in the first phase leaving out other services would leave the telecom sector in a limbo and would also mean two rounds of migration, settlements, refunds, compensations, and possibly litigations.
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"We believe that the TRAI recommendations have many serious flaws, shortcomings and contradictions and are aimed solely at legitimising full mobility for WLL operators," COAI said.
COAI alleged that despite clear countours of scope of WLL mobility, reliance had violated the norms of limited mobile services and built up a subscriber base of five million.
"In the face of the serious violations, it is inconceviable that a paltry penalty of less than Rs 500 crore is enough to balance the enormity of the violation," COAI said.
It said that the TRAI recommendation on unification of licences had rendered telecom tribunal's WLL judgement "irrelevant and infructuous".
COAI said that TRAI's move to unify only the basic and cellular licences in the first phase leaving out other services would leave the telecom sector in a limbo and would also mean two rounds of migration, settlements, refunds, compensations, and possibly litigations.
Bureau Report