Communications Minister Arun Shourie has said he was not in favour of amending the basic services licences as suggested by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India because it would open a Pandora's box of litigation.
Shourie, however, said the government was yet to take a final view on the matter.
This might mean that WLL operators could be allowed to continue to offer services like call forwarding to their subscribers.
Trai had on August 14 asked the department of telecommunications to amend the basic services licences in order to ban call forwarding by WLL operators like Reliance Infocomm.
Trai had said while the basic licences allowed call forwarding, using it for WLL limited mobility was against the spirit of the licence condition.
Cellular operators had been demanding immediate implementation of the Trai order and had met Shourie early this week in this regard.
Shourie said on the sidelines of the India-Asean summit organised jointly by CII and FICCI that a demand like amending the licence should not be made by the industry.
"Everyone should see the consequences of such a move... Will it not lead to litigation?"
A decision to this effect would however not keep the government away from litigation as the cellular operators may go to court seeking implementation of the order.
Shourie, said that government and Trai have begun independent exercises to work out details of various aspects, as recommended by the telecom tribunal in order to create a level playing field for cellular and WLL players.
"We are in the process of calculating the entry fee to be levied on basic operators for WLL services and the principle on which the fee is determined would be transparent" and would be disclosed to everyone."
On the issue of mobile switching centres being used by WLL operators Shourie said the government is awaiting a decision from the TDSAT.
"Both sides (cellular and basic operators) come to me and quote selected lines of TDSAT's recent judgment on the WLL controversy. They must know that I as well as Trai have read the full judgment," Shourie said.
The communication ministry has also made a detailed presentation to the Prime Minister, deputy prime minister, finance minister and principle secretary to prime minister on the work in progress.
"All this is an interim arrangement and eventually we have to move to a unified licencing regime concept. Trai has already come out with a consultation paper for this," Shourie said.