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    @ kesav

    Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the 2G spectrum scam, would become an excuse for the government to slow down the prosecution process.

    He said the scam exposed the fact that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had lost control over the government and the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, over her party. Above all, it showed that the country lost its sense of priority. Dr. Manmohan Singh could not absolve himself of the responsibility as the Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had made presentations to him and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee much earlier. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Members of Parliament also petitioned the Prime Minister about what was going wrong.

    The former Telecom Minister, A. Raja, violated the TRAI recommendations in allotment of spectrum. The Prime Minister remained a silent spectator as telecom operators made deals with the Minister. Even the bureaucrats in the Ministry let down the country, Mr. Shourie added.

    http://www.hindu.com/2010/12/31/stories/2010123167101600.htm

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    http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mnp-leads-to-minimal-churn-show-dataharyana/417390/

    Judging by the initial reaction to the introduction, in Haryana, of mobile number portability (MNP), most cellphone users have no pressing desire to shift.

    MNP allows a subscriber to change his or her service provider without changing the mobile number. It was launched 11 days earlier in the Haryana telecom circle. In that time, operators estimate, 30,000- 35,000 customers have requested a change in their operator. Haryana has 17 million customers and 11 operators; the numbers are much less than one per cent of the base.

    At this rate, operators expect less than 1.5 per cent of the subscriber base to opt for MNP in the next two months. This is much lower than the monthly churn rate of the sector, of five per cent per month. As for the belief that post-paid customers would be the first to churn, operators say just two to three per cent of the porting requests are coming from post-paid subscribers (who are only three per cent of Haryana’s subscribers base). Some analysts say most of the shift is happening from CDMA to GSM operators.

    Tata Teleservices’ executives say they’ve got about 21 per cent of the customers who’ve opted for MNP. They say they’d been getting 35 per cent of the incremental subscribers every month to their brand, mostly pre-paid ones.

    Reliance Communications (RCom) has been concentrating on getting only high-paying post-paid customers. For, average revenue per user in this category is equivalent to 10 pre-paid subscribers. An RCom spokesperson says: “Of the total movement on postpaid for RCom, 80 per cent are port in (those who want to join RCom). In value terms, this is 73 per cent of the total value of port ins and port outs (those who wish to leave Rcom) put together.”

    Vodafone Essar sources say for every one of their customers wanting to go to another operator, there are two who want to join them.

    Most operators, it appears, are trying hard to keep back their post-paid customers. “Once a request comes for a change, most operators are calling the subscriber, pleading not to shift. If that does not work, the processing of the request is being delayed. However, we all know we can’t do this too long,” says a leading operator.

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    Foreign Players Must Have Checked Out Their Partners: Sibal

    http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/11/30/stories/2010113052220700.htm

    The Communication and IT Minister, Mr Kapil Sibal, said foreign players should have checked the credentials of their Indian partners before picking a stake. “The Government has got nothing to do with that. The foreign players have access to best legal resources here to ascertain facts,” he said.

    The Minister said the issue of Swan will be referred to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to ascertain facts. The CAG had said that Reliance Communications had over 10 per cent stake in Swan at the time of applying for licence which is in violation of the licence conditions.

    Asked what action the Ministry was taking against Department of Telecom officials, who allegedly colluded with some of the new operators, Mr Sibal said that he was open to a Supreme Court-monitored probe.

    “Our objective is to put in place a policy framework that ensures transparency, justice and equity and ensure stability in realising the full potential of telecommunications. Next few weeks we will be rolling out our long-term policy framework,” Mr Sibal said.

    On the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the Minister said that there are 119 instances where operators may have violated roll-out obligations. This includes not just the new operators that got licences in 2008 but also those that got it in 2006. TRAI had named Vodafone, Tata Teleservices and Aircel among the existing operators that have not met the roll-out obligation. “We hope these actions send out a message to those companies who may be seeking advantage. Time has come for policy that is certain and good for long-term wherein the rule of law is honoured,” Mr Sibal said

    so in mr sibals own words ,govt lacks best legal resources,then why do the citizens need a govt.

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    http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/11/26/stories/2010112650230700.htm

    After reporting losses at the end of last fiscal, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has now gone cash negative further plunging the telecom company into deep financial mess.

    BSNL has decided to borrow Rs 3,000 crore to meet routine expenses including salary payments for the current financial year and another Rs 11,000 crore for the fiscal 2011-12.

    This comes even as the PSU has asked the Government for a bailout package including full refund of the money paid for 3G and broadband spectrum and financial support for rolling out broadband services in rural areas.

    BSNL has been struggling over the past two years owing to delays in buying network equipment, political interference and a messed up roll out of 3G and broadband services despite getting spectrum one year ahead of the other players.

    Sliding market share

    In 2005-06, the public sector undertaking reported revenues of Rs 36,138 crore from operations, which has reduced to Rs 30,268 crore in 2008-09. Profit from operations has slumped — from Rs 4,230 crore in 2005 to a loss of Rs 1,823 crore for 2009-10. It is also losing market share in the highly competitive market, which has as many as 12 operators.

    All this has happened when the telecom sector is growing the fastest in the world. While BSNL's market share has decreased, private operators such as Airtel and Vodafone have tripled their subscriber base.

    Since 2005, the public sector unit has been able to buy mobile telephony gear for supporting just about 20 million subscribers due to controversies surrounding the tendering process. Private players, on the other hand, have signed multiple deals during the same period which has enabled them to triple their subscriber base in the last five years.

    Union blames management

    BSNL's employees union has blamed top officers leading the PSU for the mess and has repeatedly requested the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, for intervention.

    “This company cannot survive under such servile management, which, we are sure, cannot rise above the interests of the lords. Thus, the issue fundamentally boils down to induction of the rarest of rare talent on the board, definitely not through the orthodox and primitive mechanism that Public Enterprise Selection Board has in place at the moment. The criterion cannot be just Indian Telecom Services seniority, based on redundant performance mechanism which cannot be the parameters to decide top slots to run a gigantic company virtually in shambles today,” the Sanchar Nigam Executive Association had said a letter to the Prime Minister in February.

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