New Delhi, Mar 10: Telecom tribunal today fixed April 2 as the date for hearing of petitions by ABTO, COAI, Data Access and Bharti Telesonic against telecom regulator's Interconnection Usage Charge (IUC) regime, although it did not give any interim order. The Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) today asked Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to file its reply on the issue in two weeks by March 24, 2003 and directed that the rejoinders be filed by March 31. The hearing on the case would now be on April 2. Association of Basic Telecom Operators (ABTO), Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), Data Access and Bharti Telesonic had approached TDSAT challenging different aspects of TRAI's IUC regime, which comes into effect from April 1, 2003.

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