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Friday, August 19, 2011
Shifted from Fixed Fee to Revenue Sharing Model
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
QUESTION NO 2059
ANSWERED ON 19.08.2011
Will the Minister of COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to satate :-
(a) the details of guidelines which have enabled telecom operators to migrate from commitments on licence fees to a revenue sharing model;
(b) whether the decision for adoption of the revenue sharing model for telecom operators was justifiable; and
(c) the details of revenue loss caused to Government exchequer by shifting from fixed fee to revenue sharing fee?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ( SHRI MILIND DEORA)
(a) & (b) Sir, the Migration Package to licensees of Cellular (Metros and Telecom Circles) and Basic Telecom Services for migration to New Telecom Policy-1999 regime was offered based on the decision of the Union Cabinet. The Licensees were required to accept all the conditions of migration package in its entirety and simultaneously to withdraw all legal proceedings against Department of Telecom (DoT) or Union of India (Uol). The migration package also provided that the licensee will forego the right of operating in the regime of limited number of operators and would operate in a multipoly licensing regime. A copy of letter of letter of migration package as offered to Cellular Mobile Telephone Service (CMTS) operators is given in as Annexure-I.
(c ) Any loss of revenue would have to be seen in a complete context. However, the impact on Licence Fee collection due to migration offered. vide NTP-99 in respect of CMTS as well as Basic Service Providers existing at that time is given in Annexure-II.
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
QUESTION NO 2059
ANSWERED ON 19.08.2011
Will the Minister of COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to satate :-
(a) the details of guidelines which have enabled telecom operators to migrate from commitments on licence fees to a revenue sharing model;
(b) whether the decision for adoption of the revenue sharing model for telecom operators was justifiable; and
(c) the details of revenue loss caused to Government exchequer by shifting from fixed fee to revenue sharing fee?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ( SHRI MILIND DEORA)
(a) & (b) Sir, the Migration Package to licensees of Cellular (Metros and Telecom Circles) and Basic Telecom Services for migration to New Telecom Policy-1999 regime was offered based on the decision of the Union Cabinet. The Licensees were required to accept all the conditions of migration package in its entirety and simultaneously to withdraw all legal proceedings against Department of Telecom (DoT) or Union of India (Uol). The migration package also provided that the licensee will forego the right of operating in the regime of limited number of operators and would operate in a multipoly licensing regime. A copy of letter of letter of migration package as offered to Cellular Mobile Telephone Service (CMTS) operators is given in as Annexure-I.
(c ) Any loss of revenue would have to be seen in a complete context. However, the impact on Licence Fee collection due to migration offered. vide NTP-99 in respect of CMTS as well as Basic Service Providers existing at that time is given in Annexure-II.
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