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Telecom operators ring in varied plans for next phase of growth

The move to weed out low-revenue users cost the telco 14 million subscribers in Q1 and analysts predict further erosion, as they feel the strategy may have backfired

Ensure equitable work, no monopoly under access coverage scheme: COAI

The Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI) further highlighted that the scheme should be for compensation of cost and should not become a "profiteering scheme"

The telecom divide

Differences in the sector need to be settled swiftly

As penalties loom, how true is telecom's financial distress narrative?

According to sources, the DCC asked the Trai to consider reducing recommended penalties on the violators of licence conditions "in view of the health of the sector"

Transfers of power

In telecom, the failure to transit early to a model in which service providers had to pay competitive prices for spectrum lies at the heart of the recent shakedown