New Delhi, Mar 22: Even as basic and cellular operators have been unable to reach an agreement on the contentious limited mobility services, the two sides have now approached Communications Minister Arun Shourie for continuing dialogue on issues such as spectrum. "There are some issues besides limited mobility where basic and cellular operators have given a joint presentation and said they want to continue their dialogue," Shourie told reporters here last evening on the sidelines of an Assocham seminar on Biotech.

While admitting that there was disagreement amongst players on limited mobility issue, Shourie said operators have expressed willingness to meet on issues like spectrum.
"Defence is using a lot of spectrum while telecom also needs spectrum. Naturally, defence is very important, and therefore aspects like how defence equipment can be mordernised, or how signalling equipment can be modernised have to be considered," Shourie said adding he was in touch with wireless advisor and signalling officer in defence and a paper was being prepared on this.
Shourie said controversies in telecom were due to the fact that licences were service specific, while technology allowed different services and the solution lay in giving licences based on spectrum. Bureau Report