The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued notices to Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India to pay Rs 38 billion as one-time spectrum fee in January 2013, says news reports.
Prior to this, DoT had issued notices to various operators informing them about the imposition of a one-time licence fee both prospectively and retrospectively, from January 1, 2013. The government is likely to get Rs 42.51 billion as the one time spectrum fee on basis of retrospective charges and Rs 189.25 billion on prospective charges from the operators.
As per DoT?s notice Bharti Airtel has to pay a one-time spectrum fee of Rs 52.01 billion. The operator has the option of submitting Rs 17.58 billion as the first installment of the total spectrum fee to be paid to DoT. Similarly, Vodafone has to pay a total of Rs 35.99 billion as the one one-time spectrum fee. Vodafone can also pay Rs 20.93 billion as the first installment.
