The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has said that strict action will be taken against companies, which have won licences by falsifying information, but have maintained it had done no wrong in the 2G licence allocation in 2008.
“All the Unified Access Service (UAS) licences in 2008 were issued as per the policy decisions taken by the government in November 2003 and subsequent detailed guidelines issued in December 2005,” DoT noted in a statement.
DoT further clarified that since 2003 as many as 51 new licences were issued prior to January 2008 under the same guidelines on ‘First Come First Served Basis’. The new licences were awarded based on the information filed by the applicants as per the prescribed guidelines.
“If any misrepresentation of facts is brought to notice at a later date, necessary action can be taken as per due procedure under the relevant rules,” DoT’s statement read.
