{"id":914264,"date":"2025-03-15T08:25:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T02:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=914264"},"modified":"2025-03-15T08:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T02:58:59","slug":"altering-current-telecom-licensing-regime-to-cause-uncertainty-deter-investments-coai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/15\/altering-current-telecom-licensing-regime-to-cause-uncertainty-deter-investments-coai\/","title":{"rendered":"Altering current telecom licensing regime to cause uncertainty, deter investments: COAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s top telecom operators have opposed the Department of Telecommunications&#8217; (DoT) decision to migrate to an authorisation regime, and urged that the current practice of entering into contractual agreements with licensed entities be kept in place. <\/p>\n<p>SP Kochhar, director-general of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), said in a letter to Neeral Mittal, secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DoT,) that the existing contractual licensing framework provides both regulatory certainty and a safeguard through enforceable contractual rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s top telecom operators have opposed the Department of Telecommunications&#8217; (DoT) decision to migrate to an authorisation regime, and urged that the current practice of entering into contractual agreements with licensed entities be kept in place. SP Kochhar, director-general of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), said in a letter to Neeral Mittal, secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DoT,) that the existing contractual licensing framework provides both regulatory certainty and a safeguard through enforceable contractual rights.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914264","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=914264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}