Bharti Airtel surrenders CDMA Spectrum in Madhya Pradesh

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Bharti Airtel surrenders CDMA Spectrum in Madhya Pradesh

Bharti Airtel surrenders the CDMA Spectrum in Madhya Pradesh

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Bharti Airtel, India's leading provider of telecommunication services, has surrendered the CDMA spectrum in the state of Madhya Pradesh to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Bharti Airtel had received the CDMA spectrum as part of licensing agreement in the year 1997, to offer services as applicable under the license.

Post the introduction of Unified Access Service regime (and receiving of the Unified Access Service License - UASL), Bharti Airtel had converted its Cellular License to UASL and the license granted in 1997 to offer fixed line services was surrendered to the DoT. Accordingly, the Company had to retain the CDMA frequency, to a any inconvenience to its more than 20,000 subscribers, mostly located at far-flung areas.

After allowing the use of CDMA spectrum under the UAS License, the Company was forced to surrender the spectrum and was also directed to pay the spectrum charges based on the combined GSM and CDMA spectrum allocated, which otherwise were to be charged separately. In addition, its request for refund of entry fee, in view of surrender of Fixed Line License was not entertained. The company has, therefore, not only not received back the refund of entry fee, but has also been forced to surrender the CDMA spectrum.

In the larger interest of the customers using the CDMA platform, Bharti Airtel has migrated all of them to the GSM technology bearing all the cost of migration of such customers.  Bharti would like to strongly appeal to the Government to clear all bottlenecks to provide additional 2G spectrum, as per the existing policy, to cater to the huge growth that Bharti Airtel is witnessing on it's GSM networks across the country.

Announcing this development, Mr. Manoj Kohli, President Bharti Airtel Ltd said, " Bharti Airtel is committed to the internationally preferred GSM technology and we have completed the process of migrating our customers from the CDMA based WLL services to the GSM technology. As an organisation committed to highest standards of customer service offering world class products and services, we gave sufficient time to our customers for migrating to the GSM platform."

Sourced From: Rediffusion DYR - Public Relations