New Delhi: The war for bandwidth is hotting up. Reliance Communications on Thursday slapped a legal notice on the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on additional spectrum allocation to GSM operators.
CDMA mobile operator Reliance Communications says DoT should enforce more rigorous recommendations than that of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
The TRAI guidelines, accepted by the department on Wednesday, are likely to benefit GSM operators like Bharti and Vodafone.
The notice came in the wake of government accepting TRAI's recommendations to award spectrum to mobile operators and deciding to file an affidavit in the Delhi High Court.
RCom also said the government should enforce Telecom Engineering Center's proposed subscriber base for allocation of spectrum, which was earlier accepted by DoT 'in-principle'.
TEC norms were much more stringent than those proposed by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. TEC had raised subscriber base by up to 15 times while TRAI had suggested up to six times increase in the users base.
The notice has been filed to ensure that excess spectrum held by GSM operators is being returned, RCom said in a statement. It said GSM operators should immediately return over 50 MHz of spectrum being hoarded by them free of cost and beyond their entitlement of 6.2 MHz.
RCom had on Wednesday said the government's decision to accept TRAI's norms for allotment of additional spectrum tantamount to succumbing to the pressure tactics of GSM lobby.
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