BSNL says no to request for infrastructure sharing
By Joji Thomas Philip, TNN |
Highlights
NEW DELHI: BSNL has slammed all private operators for demanding that the government allow them to use the PSU���s infrastructure for a price.
In a strongly worded communication to Trai, BSNL has said that private operators had taken licences well aware of the risks, opportunities and returns in the market and should have prepared their business models accordingly, rather than demand that the PSU share its network.
The PSU has also pointed out that private operators were making such demands despite the government having already given lot of relaxations and incentives to them for the development of infrastructure.
Private operators, on the other, hand maintain that the complete monopoly of the incumbents in the wire-line segment was on account of the PSUs��� head-start in rolling out copper local access network over a significant period of time using public money, and protecting it by exclusive rights.
All private operators, in their response to Trai have also argued that this factor resulted in the copper local loop segment being uncompetitive in spite of opening it for private participation.
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