Reliance Communications has said that the Telcom Regulatory Authority of India?s (TRAI) 2G spectrum price proposals favoured operators such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar.
Reliance Communications, which is predominantly a CDMA operator and expanded its GSM services a few years ago, said in a statement that TRAI?s proposals would cause a revenue loss for the government and large savings to GSM operators. It estimated the government would lose revenue to the tune of Rs 64.74 billion owing to the new proposals.
It added that GSM operators would now have to pay only for the balance licence period, which is less than five years for many players, as against the regulator’s earlier recommendation for a minimum seven years.
