Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Thursday recommended measures for ease of doing telecom business which include granting licences/approvals in a paperless manner, allowing trading of excess spectrum of a merged entity within a year and a 30-day timeline for the telecom department to approve mergers and acquisitions.
The entire process of clearance by the Standing Advisory Committee on Radio Frequency Allocation (SACFA) as well as grant of all licences/approvals should be made paperless and executed end-to-end through an online portal.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) should spell out a definite timeline, not exceeding 30 days post National Company Law Tribunal's approval, for providing written approval to transfer/merger of licences by the licensor and it should be made a part of the merger and acquisition guidelines.
"If the merger results in excess spectrum holding beyond the permissible spectrum cap, the transferee company/resultant entity should be given an option to either surrender or trade its spectrum holding, within the stipulated period of one year," Trai said in its recommendations on 'Ease of Doing Telecom Business'.
"Spectrum trading should be permitted in all the access spectrum bands which have been put to auction. The permissible block size for trading in a band should be same as specified in the NIA for the latest auction held," Trai said.
"There should be a defined timeline not exceeding 30 days within which an import licence should be granted and the same may be declared in the portal as well as in the citizen's charter," it said.
DoT should devise a suitable matrix, linking the penalty to the severity of the incident and recurrence of the violation, for imposing financial penalties.
Telecom operators should be charged for rollout obligations test fee only for areas that are actually tested by TERM Cells. The performance bank guarantees for a particular phase of roll-out obligations should be released after successful certification by the TERM Cells.
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