One-time spectrum fee from January 1 despite protests

Despite vehement protests from mobile phone companies, the department of telecom (DoT) will implement its decision to impose the one-time spectrum fee on existing telcos from the beginning of the coming year. Internal DoT documents reviewed by ET reveal that the department will soon issue a circular informing telcos that the recent decision of the Union cabinet on charging a one-time spectrum charge, both prospectively and retrospectively, on incumbent GSM telcos, will come into effect from January 1. 

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