Jaswant yet to take decision on unified licensing
New Delhi: The group of ministers headed by Indian Finance Minister Jaswant Singh has not yet resolved the issue of limited mobility for wireless in local loop-based basic telecom operators. Also, the group is yet to firm up views on unified licensing. In an interview to a newspaper, Jaswant Singh said: "The GoM held only preliminary discussions in this regard. There cannot be agreement since all members of the group were not present. What the GoM can have was a viewpoint, which it did have, on five issues. But there was no decision on three issues, including that of higher spectrum allocation."

This puts paid, the report says, to claims from certain quarters that the GoM had given a clearance in principle to the two most vexed issues of unified licensing and limited mobility for WLL service providers, at least for the time being. While Singh hoped that the GoM's decision will not leave any side unhappy, he emphasised there could be only one winner.
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