INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel will be fine if the regulator were to fix a floor for voice tariffs as well as for data, said chairman Sunil
His comments come a day after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) floated a consultation paper on whether to set a floor and a
As such, it does not seem logical, on the part of COAI, to request the authority (Trai) to regulate data tariffs by prescribing floor price
Trai said.
Jio is the only operator running a pure 4G network while the other two offer both 2G and 3G services.
On the issue of the AGR
The company is awaiting a decision on its plea for a partial review of the over ?35,000 crore statutory dues that it faces after a Supreme
Court ruling in October widened the definition of AGR to include non-core items.
Airtel, in the meantime, is also in the process of raising
$3 billion via equity and debt to pay off its dues
paper on floor pricing and its move to allow telcos to continue charging interconnect usage charge (IUC) at 6 paise a minute till end
December 2020 will improve investor appetite for the sector.
Citing the weak health of the sector, Mittal also ruled out the possibility of
auctions in the current fiscal
A day earlier, telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said the auctions may be held in March-April.
Mittal said he also discussed with
Goyal the issue of the ?36,000 crore input tax credit for telcos that has not yet been released by the government