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Trai to give view on spectrum usage charge this weekThe DoT had sought views of the attorney general on whether the govt could do away with charging different SUC rates for operators and adop...
Telecom Commission lowers spectrum usage fee for telcos to 3% of revenue for upcoming auctionCOAI had sought a uniform SUC rate of 3% for all assigned airwaves and wanted this to be reduced to 1% in a phased manner.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi for weighted average method to compute spectrum usage chargeRohatgi said that the department's proposal of revising the 1% spectrum usage charge (SUC) levied on the BWA spectrum (2300 Mhz) sold in th...
Government hopes to garner minimum Rs 64,000 crore from upcoming 2G auctionsThe government will put up 184 MHz in the 900 MHz band, 100.2 MHz in 1800 MHz band and 103.75 MHz in the 800 MHz band for sale.
Government draws flak for faulty spectrum policyCAG's latest draft report alleges that Centre's spectrum allocation & usage policies until 2004 benefitted telcos such as Airtel, Vodafone.
DoT lowers one-time charge for spectrumInstead of the Rs 2,764.29 crore originally demanded earlier this year, the telecom department (DoT) now wants them to fork out 1,989.18 cr...
- DoT wants Rs 2,764 cr more from 9 telcos including Idea, Tata Teleservices, and Etisalat
DoT wants the nine mobile phone companies whose permits were quashed by the apex court in Feb 2012 to cough up an additional Rs2,764.3 cr
Cabinet clears GSM spectrum allocation for Tata Tele in Delhi, allows spectrum sharing between operatorsEarlier this month, EGoM on spectrum headed by Chidambaram, had approved the telecom department's decision to give 4.4 MHz of start-up airw...
Government may decide on one-time spectrum fee before October 19Govt is likely to take a decision on one-time fee for spectrum before October 19, the deadline for operators to submit applications to part...
- EGoM defers decision on one-time spectrum fee
EGoM on telecom, headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram, decided to take up this issue after the outcome of the presidential reference in th...
New Telecom policy approved: Roaming charges to go, one-nation-one-number clearedTelecom users will be able to avail free roaming and keep their phone numbers even if they switch service providers anywhere in the country.
- Industry lobby AUSPI warns of Rs 20,000 crore loss to exchequer
It has warned that DoT's plans to impose a one-time charge only on a prospective basis, on incumbent telcos would result in losses to the t...
- Telecom department wants law ministry to decide date for one-time charge on 2G airwaves
After deciding to impose a onetime charge on 2G airwaves, DoT wants law ministry to decide on the dates from which these charges are applic...
- Telecom Ministry seeks waiver of Rs 1.2 lakh cr spectrum usage by defence
Telecom ministry has moved the Cabinet to waive spectrum usage charges to the tune of Rs 1.2 lakh crore for all airwaves used by defence.
- DoT refuses spectrum fee waiver for defence forces
The defence forces had sought a waiver stating that they did not derive any commercial gains from these airwaves.
- DoT to waive off spectrum charges for defence min
The department of telecom (DoT) has agreed to waive off all spectrum usage charges for the defence ministry thereby diffusing the latest ro...
- DoT, Finance ministry clash over date to implement spectrum levy
Finance Ministry wants to impose charges from April 1, while DoT favours January 1.