Monday, Jun 16.
NEW DELHI - The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has ruled out allowing ownership of spectrum by mobile virtual network operators.
"There is no question of ownership of spectrum by MVNOs," TRAI Chairman Nripendra Misra said after an open house discussion on allowing MVNOs in India.
An MVNO is a company that buys airtime from an existing mobile services provider, and offers the same to its customers without setting up its own infrastructure.
On a media report that the regulator has given its approval to the Tata Teleservices-Virgin Mobile deal that was alleged to be based on an MVNO model, Misra said, "It never needed our approval. It was never under our scrutiny. It's the licensor's (department of telecommunications')
job."
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