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| 6/17/2009 1:59:57 AM |
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New Delhi June (EPC News): The communications ministry has sought an allotment of Rs 3,000 crore from the finance ministry for supporting BSNL’s wireline networks that were set up before April 2002.
The DoT wants the amount to be sanctioned in the budget. This is to compensate the state-owned telco for losses during the last fiscal after telecom regulator Trai had done away with access deficit charge regime from April 1, 2008. |
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Prior to that, all telcos were paying 0.75% of total revenues towards ADC, which was used to support BSNL’s unviable fixedline operations in rural India.
In 2007-08, BSNL got Rs 2,000 crore as ADC. All telcos pay 5% of total revenues towards the USOF, which is dedicated to improving communication facilities in rural India. Unutilized amount in the USOF is at over Rs 20,000 crore.
In March 2009, BSNL and DoT had signed a MoU to provide the state-owned operator a subsidy of Rs 6,000 core over the next three years from this fund to sustain its rural operations. In a bid to give further relief to BSNL, last year, DoT also exempted telcos from paying licence fee on fixedline telephony from licence fee enabling the state-owned operator to save Rs 1,200 crore annually. |
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