Uninor and Sistema Shyam have filed a petition seeking review Supreme Court's order to cancel their 2G licences.

Uninor, the joint venture between Unitech and Norway's Telenor, has pointed out the severe adverse consequences for the licence holders and their stakeholders, such as massive subscriber base, foreign investors, lenders, suppliers and employees.

Uninor's petition also points to certain material facts and information that it claims were not before the Supreme Court.

“A key basis of the Court's order to cancel Uninor's licences was the conclusion that the award of licences was unilateral, arbitrary and capricious owing to a lack of consultation within Indian authorities. New and important material suggests that there was a well thought out, bona fide and collective decision by key people in the Government in the public interest for granting the startup spectrum within the entry fee of Rs 1,658 crore,” Uninor said.

Sistema Shyam TeleServices said its case was different from other new players as it was a CDMA operator.

“It is pertinent to note that SSTL was the only operator to have applied for a Pan India CDMA spectrum in 2008. There is no finding or suggestion by the CAG report that CDMA spectrum was equally or anywhere near in demand as GSM,” the company majority owned by Russia's Sistema said.

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