By IANS
New Delhi : The telecommunication players’ fight for radio frequencies is getting murkier by the day. Tata Teleservices, a leading operator based on CDMA technology, has filed a petition against the department of telecommunications (DoT) to the telecom tribunal.
Mumbai-based Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL), which applied for a license to provide telecom services under the GSM technology Oct 22, has filed the petition against the government’s decision to allocate 10 MHz of spectrum to GSM and 5 MHz to CDMA operators, according to sources.
It has also requested in the petition that the DoT should clear all its applications regarding the allotment of spectrum.
The TTSL has also asked the DoT to direct all GSM players to surrender extra spectrum being hoarded by them beyond the permissible 6.2 MHz band, sources said.
Last week, TTSL’s managing director Anil Sardana had said: “It is very dismaying that the proposal again talks about spectrum allocation, which is 2:1 in favour of GSM.”
“Additionally, for the same number of customers that TTSL has now, some of the large GSM operators had more than double the spectrum when they held same spectrum, by virtue of which such GSM operators have saved thousands of crores of rupees of capital investments,” he had said.
TTSL and Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Communications are the major players in CDMA services while Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea are the dominant players in the GSM segment.
State-run BSNL also has a major presence in the GSM segment with ambitious plans in the CDMA market as well.