BSNL’s offer to hand back BWA frequencies accepted in-principle by DoT

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is understood to have accepted an offer from state-owned telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to return broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum in most regions of the country, according to local news source The Economic Times. The report cites telecoms secretary R Chandrasekhar as saying: ‘BSNL has given a proposal to surrender BWA spectrum in some parts of the country. That proposal was considered and in-principle, it is considered acceptable, provided the details are worked out.’ Mr Chandrasekhar did, however, note that BSNL had ‘yet to finalise the number of circles where it wanted to exit the BWA business’, with elements such as the cost of the concessions and whether the telco has deployed infrastructure understood to be key determining factors for which licences BSNL will hand back

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