Trai asks Tata Tele to refund subscribers after operator shuts offerings in 16 circles
NEW DELHI: On Monday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India directed Tata Teleservices to refund the unspent stability of its pre-paid mobile subscribers and the safety deposit of its postpaid users in sixteen circles.
The regulator’s diktat comes after the Tata employer surrendered the 800 Mhz spectrum in the circles and stopped its CDMA (code division a couple of getting admission to) services on February 28.
In the case of pre-paid customers who ported out inside the wake of the agency shutting its operations, the corporation is supposed to transfer the unspent amount to the new service issuer of the person.
There are 16 circles in which Tata Teleservices turned into the allotted spectrum while bundled with the license. There are five circles wherein the organization had obtained range via a public sale, and it continues to perform services in the ones. These are Delhi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Haryana, and Andhra Pradesh.
The organization has been requested to publish a compliance document with the aid of August 20.
Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications are two agencies that secured a twin license in 2007-08 and moved to supply telecom offerings based on a worldwide system for mobile communications (GSM) technology.
Telecom, commonly a three-to-four participant area in maximum countries, had more than ten operators in some of the 22 circles after new licenses were issued in 2008 by way of the then Telecom Minister A. Raja within the United Progressive Alliance authorities. All the 122 requests issued through Raja were canceled via the Supreme Court in 2012 in the wake of what got to be called the 2G scam.
Subsequent auctions that caused inflated spectrum fees and excessive-intensity opposition compounded using Reliance Jio Infocomm’s entry in 2016, made operations unviable for many. The likes of Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices have been its sufferers.