There is good news for lakhs of mobile users in Orissa. Five new telecom players are to open their shops in the State. The competition among telecom companies is expected not only to bring down the per-call cost but also provide a vast array of opportunities to get connections in case one company fails to deliver satisfactory service to a consumer.
The five new entrants are Videocon-promoted Datacom, Idea Cellular, realty major Unitech, Swan Telecom and Loop Telecom, which have been given start-up GSM spectrum of 4.4 MHz in the Orissa circle, official sources said. The sources said Communication and Information Technology Minister A Raja on Thursday signed the file giving a green signal to allocate GSM radio frequency to the new
players.
The Department of Telecommunication is also looking at other circles where the spectrum is available in abundance and can be allocated to all the aspirants simultaneously.Some of the players, especially Idea Cellular and Spice Communications, had questioned Raja's first-come-first-serve policy to allocate spectrum, saying this should be done on the basis of application and not the payment of required fees.
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