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Telecommunications ‘Spectrum allocation to BSNL unfair’ Our Bureau New Delhi, Oct. 9 GSM mobile operators on Tuesday told the Government that it was unfair to allocate additional spectrum to State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd even as a number of private operators have been waiting for radio frequency. DoT had earlier allocated up to 10 Mhz spectrum to BSNL in 16 circles. “We verily believe that in many cases, the allotment has been made out of turn and BSNL has been allotted spectrum preferentially over an eligible and entitled GSM operator already in the queue prior to BSNL. It is submitted that this favoured treatment for one operator completely ignoring the legitimate requirements and demands of the private GSM operators, who have been waiting for months or even years to get allotment of spectrum as per the Government’s own publicly notified spectrum allotment criteria, is a serious violation of our legal and contractual rights,” the Cellular Operators Association of India said in a letter to the Department of Telecom. COAI also pointed out that the spectrum given to BSNL was also against the subscriber based allocation criteria as the State-owned company has not reached the prescribed user base to be eligible for additional frequency in some of the circles. COAI said that it was important to ensure that level playing field with BSNL is restored immediately and all outstanding applications from existing private operators for spectrum be cleared. Operators such as Idea Cellular have got licence to offer mobile services in Mumbai in 2006 but have not yet received spectrum. BSNL gets additional GSM spectrum More Stories on : Telecommunications | Broadband
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