{"id":1027342,"date":"2026-08-08T08:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027342"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:36:04","slug":"sc-seeks-airtel-vi-replies-to-govt-plea-on-spectrum-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/sc-seeks-airtel-vi-replies-to-govt-plea-on-spectrum-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"SC seeks Airtel, Vi replies to govt plea on spectrum fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea on the Centre\u2019s appeal against the Bombay High Court verdict striking down the retrospective levy of one-time spectrum charges (OTSC). The levy, the demand for which was first raised in 2013, runs into about `22,000 crore across the industry, including Rs 3,300 crore in bank guarantees. <\/p>\n<p>A Bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan issued notices to the telcos and indicated that it would decide at the next hearing whether the appeal should be heard along with a pending matter arising from the Madras High Court\u2019s ruling in the Aircel case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea on the Centre\u2019s appeal against the Bombay High Court verdict striking down the retrospective levy of one-time spectrum charges (OTSC). The levy, the demand for which was first raised in 2013, runs into about `22,000 crore across the industry, including Rs 3,300 crore in bank guarantees. A Bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan issued notices to the telcos and indicated that it would decide at the next hearing whether the appeal should be heard along with a pending matter arising from the Madras High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027354,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027342\/revisions\/1027354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}