India Operators Urged the Government to Release 4G Spectrum

Recently, India telecom operator BSNL urged the government to distribute 700MHz spectrum fairly so as to deploy 4G services and participate in market competition at home.

As a premium band, 700MHz was streaming at a price of 114 billion 850 million rupees per megahertz in the spectrum auction last year.

According to reports, BSNL in the meeting with the inter Ministerial Committee (IMG), but also applied for two years to delay the delivery of government projects involving licenses, taxes and fees, and some areas of the project's spectrum fee (SUC). State owned enterprise PSU also advised the government to cancel the tax on these items. The report also said that the telecommunications company also for the Tang CDMA spectrum about the compensation of 15 billion 200 million rupees for.

At the same time, MTNL also submitted to the inter Ministerial Committee on the high cost of employees. MTNL said that high paying employees have created unfair competition in the telecommunications sector and called on the government to support the voluntary retirement mechanism (VRS).