TEC exercise could destroy GSM industry: COAI
Cellular Operators Association of India, the lobby of GSM mobile operators on Wednesday strongly reacted to Telecom Engineering Centre's report on spectrum allocation, saying the "exercise appears to be aimed at destroying the performing sector".
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Cellular Operators Association of India, the lobby of GSM mobile operators on Wednesday strongly reacted to Telecom Engineering Centre's report on spectrum allocation, saying the "exercise appears to be aimed at destroying the performing sector".
"The excessive hike in subscriber numbers was being done with a single point agenda to choke and deprive the existing GSM operators of spectrum and to facilitate a priority entry of select players into GSM," COAI said.
It also accused TEC, the technical wing of Department of Telecom, with being completely non-transparent. COAI director general T V Ramachandran said the general feeling in the industry was that "it (GSM operators) was being punished for going to TDSAT on this issue".
The Association had last week challenged DoT's new norms of allowing dual technology and following TRAI's recomendations of enhanced subscriber linked criteria for additional spectrum allocation.
He said it is evident that an increase in the subscriber linakges by as much as 800 per cent in the revised criteria that was reviewed only last year indicates that the objective is not to ensure spectrum efficiency but rather to ensure spectrum deficiency for existing operators.
"The excessive hike in subscriber numbers was being done with a single point agenda to choke and deprive the existing GSM operators of spectrum and to facilitate a priority entry of select players into GSM," COAI said.
It also accused TEC, the technical wing of Department of Telecom, with being completely non-transparent. COAI director general T V Ramachandran said the general feeling in the industry was that "it (GSM operators) was being punished for going to TDSAT on this issue".
The Association had last week challenged DoT's new norms of allowing dual technology and following TRAI's recomendations of enhanced subscriber linked criteria for additional spectrum allocation.
He said it is evident that an increase in the subscriber linakges by as much as 800 per cent in the revised criteria that was reviewed only last year indicates that the objective is not to ensure spectrum efficiency but rather to ensure spectrum deficiency for existing operators.
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