{"id":871349,"date":"2024-10-29T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T03:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=871349"},"modified":"2024-10-29T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T03:54:21","slug":"double-whammy-on-operators-cellular-association-of-india-bid-to-centre-to-scrap-licence-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/29\/double-whammy-on-operators-cellular-association-of-india-bid-to-centre-to-scrap-licence-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Double whammy&#8217; on operators: Cellular Association of India bid to Centre to scrap licence fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom body COAI wants the Centre to scrap licence fees as they were a \u201cdouble whammy\u201d on the operators. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe TSPs (telecom service providers) buy the spectrum for utilisation through transparent auction processes, paying a substantial amount for receiving the right to use the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom body COAI wants the Centre to scrap licence fees as they were a \u201cdouble whammy\u201d on the operators. \u201cThe TSPs (telecom service providers) buy the spectrum for utilisation through transparent auction processes, paying a substantial amount for receiving the right to use the same.\u201d<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871349","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=871349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}