{"id":941962,"date":"2025-06-27T17:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941962"},"modified":"2025-06-28T05:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:49:05","slug":"airtel-faces-%e2%82%b96-48-lakh-penalty-for-subscriber-verification-rule-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/27\/airtel-faces-%e2%82%b96-48-lakh-penalty-for-subscriber-verification-rule-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel faces \u20b96.48 lakh penalty for subscriber verification rule violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecom has sent a notice to Bharti Airtel for imposing a penalty of \u20b96.48 lakh for violation of subscriber verification rules in Assam circle, the telco said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel in a regulatory filing has countered the charges and said that it will take appropriate action for its rectification and reversal.<\/p>\n<p>The company received a notice from &#8220;The Department of Telecommunications, Assam LSA&#8221; for &#8220;imposing a penalty of \u20b96,48,000 for alleged violation of subscriber verification norms&#8221; on June 25.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DoT conducted a sample CAF (consumer application form) audit for quarter ending March, 2025 and has alleged violation of terms and conditions with respect to the subscriber verification norms under the License Agreement,&#8221; the filing said. <\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel said that the maximum financial impact on the company is to the extent of the penalty levied. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Company does not agree with the Notice and will take appropriate action(s) for rectification \/ reversal of the same,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecom has sent a notice to Bharti Airtel for imposing a penalty of \u20b96.48 lakh for violation of subscriber verification rules in Assam circle, the telco said on Thursday. Bharti Airtel in a regulatory filing has countered the charges and said that it will take appropriate action for its rectification and reversal. The company received a notice from &#8220;The Department of Telecommunications, Assam LSA&#8221; for &#8220;imposing a penalty of \u20b96,48,000 for alleged violation of subscriber verification norms&#8221; on June 25. &#8220;DoT conducted a sample CAF (consumer application form) audit for quarter ending March, 2025 and has alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941962","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}