In a major relief to the dual technology (those offering services on both the GSM and CDMA platform) telecom license holders, Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications (RCom), the department of telecommunications (DoT) has decided their licenses will not be scrapped. The decision is based on the legal advice of senior advocate P P Rao, consulted by DoT on the matter. This was after various groups, including industry body Assocham, the COAI, and Idea Cellular managing director Himanshu Kapania, insisted the Supreme Court’s order in February 2012 that cancelled 2G licences, should lead to quashing of 141 Unified Access Service (UAS) licenses, instead of only 122. Tata Teleservices holds 19 such licenses and R-Com has 22 across the country. At present, Tata Teleservices offers CDMA services in 19 telecom zones and RCom’s CDMA service is available in all 22 circles across the country.
Source: Angel Broking
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