The telecom
services industry in India is not in a good shape. The total debt of the
private telecom operators (BSNL has no debt burden so far) is Rs 2,75,000
crores. For the 3G and BWA spectrum all the telecom services companies including
the PSUs have paid Rs 1,05,000 crores in 2010.
Except the top 3
companies—Airtel, Vodafone and Idea—all other telecom companies are losing Rs
800 to 1000 crore every three months, due to this debt burden, heavy investment
and steep fall in tariffs. The ARPU(Aveerage Revenue Per User) in case of GSM
subscriber came down from Rs 261 in December 2007 to Rs 100 in March 2011. The
ARPU of CDMA subscriber came down from Rs 176 in December 2007 to Rs 66 in
March 2011. Added to this, the Goveernment is planning to collect the amount
for the additional spectrum beyond 6.2 MHz in case of GSM operators and 4.4 MHz
in case of CDMA operators retrospectively. If paid, this will be around Rs
17000 crore. The DoT already issued notices to 5 telecom companies—airtel,
vodaafone, idea, Rcom and TTTSL asking them to pay Rs 1600 crore( all 5
together) towards the license fee and spectrum charge evaded by them by
undershowing their revenue during the years 2007-07 and 2007-08.
In view of this
situation where most of the telcos are facing debt burden, and losses or
marginal profits and penalties from DoT, it is reported in the news papers that
the mobile tariffs are likely to be increased from 60 paise per minute to 72
paise and STD and calls to landline fro 60 paise to 90 paise per minute.
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