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不要削弱印度电信:ET社论
最高法院裁决支持政府对电信公司价值9264.1亿卢比的收入索赔是有缺陷的。这将加剧印度电信业的财务压力。
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印度国家电信公司将为5G部署分配6200亿卢比的频谱
官员们表示，交通部的一个委员会批准了一项提案，向BSNL提供价值约2200亿卢比的700 MHz频段的10 MHz区块，以及中频段(3600 MHz至3670 MHz)的70 MHz区块，用于5G。
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最高法院裁决称，许可证协议草案的第19.1条列出了必须成为调整后总收入(AGR)一部分的项目，这是神圣不可侵犯的。因此，手机销售收入、租金、股息、利息收入以及出售废品或财产的利润构成了AGR的一部分。但原则上，AGR必须只包括因行使电讯牌照而产生的收入。库务业务的收入没有理由一定要列入年度增长比率。法院忽略了一个事实，即最初的协议将服务提供商迁移到收入共享模式，实际上包含了政府考虑行业监管机构建议的承诺火车，同时敲定收入分成，以及收入分成的内容。Trai和电信上诉机构，TDSAT，已经就AGR中应该包含什么，不应该包含什么做出了明智的声明。
政府在频谱开始拍卖(而不是与牌照一起分配)之后，仍继续获得大量收入，这一事实使目前的裁决加倍不公正和繁重。
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<\/figure> NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court<\/a> ruling upholding the government\u2019s revenue claim on telcos worth \u20b992,641 crore is flawed. It would exacerbate the financial stress in Indian telecom<\/a>. Besides, the order hinges on illogical wording contained in the draft telecom licence agreement<\/a>. The government should not have chased any share of revenue not arising from exercise of the telecom licence, in the first place, but having done that successfully, it should forgo the penalty and interest levied on the original disputed revenue demand. Of the \u20b992,641 crore, \u20b923,189 crore is the actual disputed dues and the rest represents penalty and accumulated interest.The SC ruling says clause 19.1 of the draft licence agreement, which lists the items that have to be part of Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR), is sacrosanct. So, income from handset sales, rent, dividends, interest income and profit from sale of scrap or property forms a part of the AGR. However, in principle, AGR must include only revenues that have been derived from exercise of a telecom licence. There no reason why income from treasury operations must be a part of the AGR. The court ignores the fact that the original agreement to migrate service providers to a revenue-sharing model, in fact, contains the government\u2019s commitment to take into account the recommendations of the sector regulator Trai<\/a>, while finalising the revenue share and what would comprise the revenue to be shared. Both Trai and the appellate body for telecom, TDSAT<\/a>, have made sensible pronouncements on what ought to and what ought not to figure in AGR.
The fact that the government continues to collect a steep share of the revenue, even after spectrum started to be auctioned, rather than allocated along with licence, makes the present ruling doubly unjust and onerous.
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It was also the fastest-growing market. But below the surface, a price war since the 2016 launch of Jio had ringed the sector hallow. 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