TRAI recommendations to hike tariff by 90p in metros, says PwC

Reports about the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) recommendations on spectrum pricing have been grabbing viable news slots, since a while now. What followed were a series of reports stating that the telecoms warned that a tariff hike would become imminent, if the government accepted TRAI’s recommendations. In one of our earlier reports, too, the opinions of Auspi (Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India), a body representing CDMA and dual-technology mobile operators, like Sistema Shyam, Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices were stated, wherein Auspi stated that the reserve price recommended by TRAI for auctioning the 800MHz airwave band could lead to doubling of call tariffs.  Click here for full story