(a) whether the Government are aware of the Reliance Infocomm violating the limited mobility licence norms;
(b) if so, the action taken by the Government in this regard; and
(c) if not the steps taken/ being taken to resolve the problems arising out of Reliance Violating the limited Mobility licence norms?
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI ASHOK PRADHAN)
(a) to (c) An inspection of services provided by M/s Reliance Infocom Ltd. was carried out. It was noticed that service being provided had a combination of certain features/facilities which changed the nature of the service thereby blurring the difference between limited mobility facility and full-fledged cellular mobile telephone service. A notice to discontinue the features/facilities was issued to them accordingly. Further, the Government accepted the TRAI recommendations on Unified Access Services Licence (UASL) enabling licensee to provide wireline and wireless services including full mobility services. M/s Reliance have migrated to UASL after paying the penalty.