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| Bad Idea: Idea arrival delayed | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 19
An upcoming major telecom player in Jammu and Kashmir, the Idea Cellular is reportedly aghast with the central Department of Telecommunications for holding up the allocation of frequencies.
The Aditya Birla Group promoted and leading telecom firm, Idea Cellular had received Letters of Intents for its operations in Jammu and Kashmir, besides eight other circles, around two months back. However, the Department of Telecommunications is delaying frequency allocation to the new company reading up to set its foothold in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources said that Idea has lodged a written protest with the Department of Telecommunications for this inordinate delay. In its letter, the Idea cited an order by the Delhi High Court that had asked DoT to "take into account the seniority of the petitioner in respect of the application dated 24.08.2007, for grant of UAS (unified access service) license."
"It is now nearing 20 months since we applied, and six weeks since we deposited Rs.684.59 crore (Rs.6.84 billion) as license entry Fee. You are aware that our applications were made not just prior to 24.08.2007, but they rank No.1 in seniority among all those holding letters of intent/in-principle approvals issued after 26.06.2006 (the date of our applications)," Sanjeev Aga, managing director of Idea, said in the letter.
"We aver that the principle set out by the Hon'ble Delhi High Court is equally applicable to us, and requires that the DoT shall not allocate initial GSM (global system for mobile communications) spectrum to applications made after 26.06.2006, before first allocating the same to us in each of the nine service areas," he added in the letter. |
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