Trai seeks views on discount of telecom licence entry charge, clubbing financial institution ensures – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Trai on Tuesday floated a session paper on lowering entry charge for telecom licences and clubbing of monetary and efficiency financial institution ensures.
At current, there’s a totally different entry charge charged for unified telecom licences and licences for digital community operators.
The division of telecom (DoT) has sought suggestions of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on lowering the entry charge and making it uniform for every kind of permits.
The DoT in its letter dated March 3 additionally requested Trai to provide its suggestion on merging of monetary financial institution ensures and efficiency financial institution ensures and prescribing a single financial institution assure for every allow.
The Discover Inviting Functions (NIA) for the public sale of spectrum 2022 doesn’t prescribe any financial institution assure to safe installment funds.
Amongst varied facets on the topic, Trai has sought views on justification to proceed with the apply of the financial institution assure in varied licences, apply that needs to be adopted to safe the federal government dues and efficiency of service suppliers, justification for merging the 2 financial institution ensures and so on.
As a part of the telecom reforms introduced in September 2021, the DoT has already diminished financial institution ensures by 80 per cent for all licences.
The regulator has set August 23 because the deadline for touch upon the paper and September 6 for counter feedback.