According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the gross revenue of telecom service companies increased by 5.7 per cent from Rs 542.83 billion in the last quarter of 2012-2013 to Rs 573.78 billion in the corresponding period in 2013-14.
For the period under review, mobile phone service providers alone jointly reported gross revenue of Rs 551.64 billion. The rest of the revenues came from companies holding single licenses for services such as internet and long-distance calls.
TRAI states that Bharti Airtel has reported the highest gross revenue at Rs 172.26 billion, followed by Vodafone India (Rs 86.30 billion), Idea Cellular (Rs 82.32 billion), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited ? BSNL (Rs 75.64 billion), Reliance Communications – RCOM (Rs 41.97 billion), Tata Teleservices Limited ? TTSL (Rs 33.48 billion), Aircel (Rs 30.41 billion), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (Rs 10.52 billion) and Uninor (Rs 10.49 billion), Videocon Telecom (Rs 3.78 billion), Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (Rs 3.18 billion) and Loop Mobile (Rs 1.21 billion).
Further, the adjusted gross revenue during the quarter, based on which the government gets paid license fees and spectrum charges, increased by about 10 per cent from Rs 352.79 billion in last quarter of 2012-13 to Rs 388.42 billion in the corresponding quarter of 2013-14.
Meanwhile for the quarter under review, telecom service providers jointly paid license fees of Rs 31.107 billion, which is about nine per cent higher than a year earlier. Spectrum charges paid to the government increased by about eight per cent to Rs 14.42 billion in the period.
For the period under review, Bharti Airtel paid Rs 14.44 billion toward both licence fees and spectrum charges, followed by Vodafone India (Rs 7.36 billion) and Idea Cellular (Rs 7.33 billion), BSNL (5.42 billion), RCOM (Rs 2.97 billion), TTSL (Rs 2.53 billion) and Aircel (Rs 2.27 billion).
