RCom Gets Pan India GSM License

RCom Gets Pan India GSM License

Techtree News Staff, Dec 10, 2007 1736 hrs IST

DoT has made necessary amendments to the Unified Access Service License, thus enabling RCom to offer GSM services in addition to its CDMA services.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has recently granted license to Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications (RCom) to start GSM services in 14 new circles.

With this, RCom now has a pan India GSM license, along with CDMA. The company already provides GSM services in 8 circles. Now there is an addition of 14 more circles.

DoT has made necessary amendments to the Unified Access Service License (UASL), thus enabling the company to offer GSM services in addition to its existing CDMA services.

However, DoT has said that the amendments are subject to availability of spectrum. RCom will be allotted spectrum only after existing license holders that have applied for a pan-India license are granted spectrum.

RCom has paid the requisite license fees of Rs 1,651 crore on October 19 for a pan-India GSM license, after DoT announced its revised spectrum allocation norms, and permitted CDMA service providers to offer GSM services.

Meanwhile, other leading GSM service providers like Airtel, Vodafone, and Idea have challenged the new spectrum allocation policy, and also the move to allow use of dual technology.



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Reliance GSM service is horrible. I don't know whether they will be able to manage this service (if spectrum is allotted) effectively and competitively.

by Chiradip Das, Bangalore, on Dec 11, 2007 09:27 PM, Report abuse   Reply

gsm

by mistry, mumbai, on May 09, 2008 08:13 PM, Report abuse

what is pan-India license?

by smita pradhan, mumbai, on Jan 14, 2008 10:12 AM, Report abuse   Reply

RCOM service is inefficient & managed by staff with no knowledge of products or services offered by RCOM Only due to money power & lack of effective consumer protest, they are surviving in CDMA. I doubt if they would be able to compete effectively in GSM.

by Chandrashekhar , Mumbai, on Dec 12, 2007 04:55 PM, Report abuse   Reply

its very good news for custmers of gsm now they will get more advantage if relaince get the gsm services availabilty.

by yashwant bhanda, delhi, on Dec 11, 2007 02:58 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Getting the license is good Better for Rcom to improve the infra structure in existing circles.

by vijayshimla, Shimla 171001, on Dec 11, 2007 08:31 AM, Report abuse   Reply

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