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Reliance Communications alleges discrimination by govt on spectrum charge

In 2015, RCom said, DoT had raised a demand for OTSC when it liberalised the administratively allocated spectrum

Anil Ambani, RCom
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Anil Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Communication addresses the media during a press conference in Mumbai | Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar

Kiran Rathee New Delhi
Reliance Communications (RCom) says the department of telecommunications (DoT) discriminated against it for seeking a bank guarantee for one-time spectrum charges (OTSC) from it, whereas no such demand was made from Vodafone, which is merging with Idea Cellular.

According to sources, RCom has written a letter to DoT, wherein the Anil Ambani-owned company cited media reports that conditional approval had been given to the Vodafone-Idea merger without insisting on any bank guarantee (BG) against the pending OTSC of Vodafone. 


In 2015, RCom said, DoT had raised a