The department of telecommunication, facing a flood of applications from new companies planning to start operations, will prepare a fresh set of guidelines to screen applicants and award licenses.
"I have asked DoT secretary to form a committee to frame guidelines for grant of license to the new applicants. The panel will work our fresh guidelines for the new applicants to get the licenses," Communications Minister A Raja told reporters on the sidelines of a function.
Raja said considering the huge number of applications, there was a need to form new norms to issue licenses.
There are about 140 new proposals from various companies seeking universal access service licenses to provide services across the country, the world's fastest-growing
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