Hold consultations on norms: Bharti Airtel tells TRAI
‘Issues, pricing never discussed in past’
Country’s largest operator Bharti Airtel has urged the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to conduct a fresh round of consultation before coming up with guidelines to ensure transparent, non-discriminatory and non-predatory tariff offers by telcos in view of a recent TDSAT order.
Norms for self checks
The Telecom Disputes and Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT), earlier this month, had asked TRAI to work out guidelines for telcos to perform self-checks for ascertaining consistency with the principles of Interconnection Usage Charge (IUC) compliance and non-predation.
TRAI had in March last year issued a consultation paper on ‘Regulatory Principles of Tariff Assessment’. The consultation process on the issue was completed before the TDSAT order.
Bharti Airtel pointed out that the issues and pricing norms with respect to which TDSAT had directed TRAI to “issue necessary guidelines had neither been dealt with in any past consultation paper, nor had the same been discussed in an open house discussion.”
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