A department of telecommunication (DoT) panel has recommended that mobile phone companies offering 3G services through roaming deals must stop such activity immediately, claiming such pacts are “illegal and violate licence rules”. It has also proposed a Rs.50-crore penalty per service area for such violations of licence conditions.
The committee has recommended “immediate stoppage of selling and provisioning illegal 3G services to existing and new customers, and imposition of Rs.50 crore against each licence,” in an internal departmental note.
The DoT panel was constituted to examine 3G roaming deals among mobile phone companies. The committee claims that such 3G intra-circle roaming pacts, which pave the way for “thirdparty use/sub-leasing of spectrum, would allow mobile phone companies to launch any kind of service without having the commercial rights to use the spectrum in a particular service area”. The DoT panel adds that “sale/provisioning of 3G services through the network of other operators using intra-circle roaming facility leads not only to licence violations, but also results in undue enrichment of these mobile phone companies which are collecting revenue from 3G customers without specific authorisation”.
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