The meeting of MoIC held on Thursday termed the proposal vague and asked the telecom sector regulator to come up with a clear proposal. [break]
An official of MoIC told Republica that the proposal was not clear that they have asked NTA officials to prepare another proposal including detailed procedures for licensing.
The government had rejected NTA´s similar proposal four years ago as well. In the proposal, NTA had proposed to the government to adopt ´unified licensing´ policy, and recommended the government to allow existing and new operators to operate all telecom services, including International Long Distance (ILD) service, with a single license. It had proposed a fee of Rs 295 million for ´unified license´.
In the new proposal, NTA had said any operator willing to pay Rs 295 million license fee and Rs 20 billion as renewal fee after 10 years could operate all telecom services.
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