Delhi high court lifts stay order on Bharti Airtel 3G pact ban
The Delhi high court on Thursday set aside an earlier stay order by it on the Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) directive banning Bharti Airtel Ltd from offering 3G roaming services in some circles.
After DoT on 15 March ordered India’s largest telecom service provider to stop offering 3G services in seven circles where it did not win spectrum in the 2010 auction, and to pay a Rs.350 crore fine, Bharti secured an injunction on the order from a single bench of the Delhi high court.
On Thursday, a two judge bench headed by Delhi high court chief justice Darmar Murugesan set aside the stay and ordered that the parties were free to argue the case before the single judge bench. It is unclear whether Bharti will have to follow the DoT notice immediately or not.
The latest order came on an appeal by rival telecom service provider Reliance Communications Ltd (RCom)—a sign that the Indian telecom sector is reorienting itself into new polarizations, different from the GSM-CDMA war of the previous decade, as data services gain more importance, say analysts.
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The Delhi high court on Thursday set aside an earlier stay order by it on the Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) directive banning Bharti Airtel Ltd from offering 3G roaming services in some circles.
After DoT on 15 March ordered India’s largest telecom service provider to stop offering 3G services in seven circles where it did not win spectrum in the 2010 auction, and to pay a Rs.350 crore fine, Bharti secured an injunction on the order from a single bench of the Delhi high court.
On Thursday, a two judge bench headed by Delhi high court chief justice Darmar Murugesan set aside the stay and ordered that the parties were free to argue the case before the single judge bench. It is unclear whether Bharti will have to follow the DoT notice immediately or not.
The latest order came on an appeal by rival telecom service provider Reliance Communications Ltd (RCom)—a sign that the Indian telecom sector is reorienting itself into new polarizations, different from the GSM-CDMA war of the previous decade, as data services gain more importance, say analysts.
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