Reliance Communications has received requisite approvals from the Department of Telecommunications to offer GSM services on a nation wide basis under its existing Unified Access Service Licenses.
Along with Rcom the DoT has permitted two other CDMA players namely HFCL and Shyam Telelink to use GSM technology in their existing licence areas.
The move makes Reliance, which runs GSM services in seven circles (the North-East, Assam, Orissa, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar) ready to operate GSM services in rest of the country. All that the company needs to do now is to pay the required licence fee of Rs16.17bn to the DoT and install the relevant equipment.
The DoT will grant the company an additional 4.4 MHz in the 1,800 MHz band across the country for this purpose. This will be in addition to the existing CDMA network that Reliance runs nationwide. Even Shyam and HFCL are eligible to get GSM spectrum in Rajasthan and Punjab respectively, where they run CDMA-based networks.
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