Myrepublica.com reports that Nepal’s Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has ordered the country’s telecoms regulator, Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), to stop issuing 3G mobile frequencies to telecoms operators and to abandon its plan to implement a unified licensing scheme which would enable telcos to offer any type of service via a single concession. The journal quotes a source at CIAA as saying: ‘The decision was taken based on a complaint filed at the CIAA which said giving away 3G frequencies to telecom operators was inflicting huge revenue losses on the government and the plan to issue unified licence smacked of suspicious motive of serving certain groups’ vested interest.’ It is understood that in the wake of the complaint, two weeks ago the CIAA asked the secretary of the Ministry of Information and Communications - the authority to which the NTA the reports - to open an investigation into the complaints. However, with no response forthcoming it has decided to issue a formal order
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OVETEL CIAA tells NTA to abandon unified licensing and stop issuing 3G frequencies
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