New Delhi, April 18: Tata Teleservices Ltd, India's sixth-biggest cellular carrier by customers, has it will surrender the CDMA spectrum it holds in excess of 2.5 Mhz in 15 circles across the country rather than paying the one-time fee mandated by the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) for continued use of this ‘excess spectrum'.
Tata Tele, 26 percent owned by Japan's NTT DoCoMo, said it has informed the telecommunications ministry that it will give up CDMA airwaves beyond 2.5 megahertz in 15 service areas, but retain 3.75 megahertz in the Delhi and Mumbai cities.
"The company stands committed to ensuring that this will not adversely affect network or service quality and is looking to deploy additional capex to offset the reduced spectrum availability," the company said in a statement.
Tata Tele operates two separate networks based on the GSM and CDMA technology.
