AUSPI voices concerns ahead of Tuesday’s EGoM meet
05 Jun 2012
The Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI) has have voiced its concerns ahead of the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) meeting on Tuesday.
The EGoM is meeting will take a final call on the telecom regulator's recommendations on spectrum allocation and pricing.
''AUSPI is extremely concerned regarding high spectrum price of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) recommendation, which is far from societal market realities,'' AUSPI said in its letter to finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.
TRAI has an ''extremely aggressive'' outlook for data services consumption and revenue, the lobbying body for dual-technology and CDMA operators said in its letter, but added that the Indian consumer market is ''not at all ready'' for such high data revenue projections.
''It would also not be ready for a quite few more years.''
The letter also said the market now needs more voice-driven 2G services to serve the sub-urban poor and also for meeting 100 per cent rural tele-density.
