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TRAI recommends cancellation of 38 licences

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CIOL Bureau
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NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecom said today that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended the government to cancel 38 Unified Access Service (UAS) licenses, given to eight telecom players. This include Aircel Ltd, Dishnet Wireless Ltd, Etisalat DB Telecom Pvt. Ltd, Loop Telecom Ltd, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd, Unitech Wireless (East) Pvt. Ltd, Unitech Wireless (North) Pvt. Ltd, Unitech Wireless (West) Pvt. Ltd.

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State Minister for Telecommunications Sachin Pilot told lawmakers in the upper house of parliament that the regulator had recommended cancelling 31 other telecoms licences after legal examination. These firms are: Aircel Ltd, Allianz Infratech (P) Ltd, Etisalat DB Telecom Pvt. Ltd, Loop Telecom Ltd, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd, Videocon Telecommunications Ltd.

On Thursday, Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal had said that the DoT would send notices to the companies by the end of this week asking them to explain why their licences should not be cancelled.

Government officials have earlier said the regulator had recommended cancelling some licences as the companies had not met network rollout obligations.

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