Nivedita Mookerji
Thursday, November 22, 2007 05:06 IST
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1134692
NEW DELHI: The tussle between the two mobile groups - GSM and CDMA - continues despite daylong deliberations between the government and the industry on Wednesday.
After meetings spread out over four hours with top officials of the department of telecommunications (DoT) on issues related to spectrum allocation and dual technology, mobile operators said they were “in dialogue” with the government, indicating no consensus had emerged. Company sources said only preliminary discussions were held on some of the contentious issues.
While the DoT secretary DS Mathur and other senior officials met the top representatives of all private telecom companies in the morning, there were some one-on-ones between the government and the industry later in the day. Media was not allowed inside Sanchar Bhavan, which houses DoT, all through Wednesday.
Reliance Communications’s Anil Ambani, Bharti’s Sunil Mittal, Idea Cellular’s Sanjeev Aga and Vodafone Essar’s Asim Ghosh were among those who attended the DoT meetings on Wednesday. None of them was ready to make any comment on the day-long deliberations.
Mittal said, “We have been asked not to speak to the media.”
The objective behind the DoT-industry meet was to resolve some of the differences between two mobile phone groups. GSM members had recently moved the telecom dispute tribunal (TDSAT) against the new government policy allowing use of dual technology and the revised spectrum allocation criteria.
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