DoT slaps fine on mobile operators

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DoT slaps fine on mobile operators

The Department of Telecom has imposed a penalty on mobile operators, including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Idea Cellular for not verifying the details of all their subscribers.

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New Delhi, June 23

The Department of Telecom has imposed a penalty on mobile operators, including Bharti Airtel , Reliance Communications , Tata Teleservices , Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Idea Cellular for not verifying the details of all their subscribers.

The move comes after the DoT's vigilance cell found subscribers on the operator's network without proper documents. For example, in the case of Bharti Airtel, the vigilance officers found 2,373 subscribers, out of a sample of 22,668 users in Gujarat, with missing photo identity and address (PIA) proof and/or invalid customer acquisition forms (CAF).

In the case of Vodafone Essar, 4,913 connections out of a sample of 43,771 were found to be without proper documents. Reliance Communications had 3,798 cases of unverified subscribers out of a sample of 19,445, according to the DoT report.

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The report is for October 2008-March 2009. The DoT has imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 per unverified subscribers. Operators have been ordered to pay up the fine within 21 days.

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