Minister Prasad warns telcos against poor service quality, says lot of spectrum available
He said that government is open to make changes in merger and acquisition guidelines. Warning private mobile operators against any deterioration in quality of service, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said a lot of spectrum is available and the companies need to take into account the concerns raised by consumers on call drops and other problems. The minister said he will ask telecom regulator Trai to look into the matter if consumers continue to raise concerns, even as he hoped that there would be a “negligible impact” of just about Rs 0.013 per minute on call tariffs from the recent spectrum auction. On apprehensions that call rates would increase due to the revenue outgo of telecom operators in spectrum auction, Prasad said he believes that there will be negligible impact of Rs 0.013 per minute on mobile call rates. Talking about next round of spectrum auctions, Prasad said, “I will take presentation from Department of Telecom on availability of spectrum and after spectrum won by telecom operators in recent auction is allocated, there is a process which has to be followed.” The spectrum auction that concluded on March 25 fetched government bids worth Rs 1,09,874.91 crores.
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