WLL operators may challenge DoT order

Posted on | August 30, 2005 |

Fixed-phone service providers using WLL technology (FWT) may challenge in court DoT’s decision to categorise their services at par with mobile services on the ground that the directive has been issued even as the matter is sub-judice. Service providers said the department had jumped the gun and not waited for the TDSAT’s verdict on the issue, which was to be delivered shortly.

Telecom department officials, however, said the government did not have to wait for the TDSAT judgment as the directive was policy-related. “The issue in the courts is a fight between BSNL and Tata Teleservices over the non-payment of access deficit charge. The judgment will have a bearing on FWT services, but this is a policy decision,

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