Trai proposes ways to ease doing of business in telecom sector

The telecom regulator had issued a position paper on ease of doing business in March this year

To improve ease of doing business, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has proposed some new measures.

These include approval to a merged entity within 30 days of a go-ahead from the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), giving telcos up to a year to surrender or trade excess airwaves in the case of a merger, permitting trading in all bands which have been put on auction, plus easier penalty norms.

If the department of telecommunications (DoT) agrees, the proposed mergers of Bharti Airtel-Telenor, Vodafone-Idea Cellular, and Bharti Airtel-Tata Teleservice's mobile business would all get approval in a