The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has said that it will decide in a month’s time on the cancellation of licences given by former Minister of Telecommunications and IT, A. Raja, in 2008 to allegedly ineligible firms, say news reports.
According to R. Chandrasekhar, secretary, DoT, “We have received replies from all 85 licence holders who were issued show-cause notices. We are legally examining them and should be able to take a decision on it in a month’s time.? He added that in so far, no licence has been cancelled.
DoT has issued notices to firms on two issues, ineligibility to obtain licences and failure to meet the roll-out obligations within the stipulated timeframe, and the process to send notices would be completed within a week, he said.
The DoT has to give 60 days to the operators to file their response to the show-cause notice for the cancellation of licences.
Notices have been issued to Swan Telecom (now Etisalat DB), Datacom (now Videocon Telecom), S Tel, Uninor and others, either due to ineligibility or missing the roll-out obligations.
