Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Tuesday told Delhi HC that no coercive steps would be taken against telecom companies till January 6 in connection with call drop norms.
The telecom regulator had said that it would be mandatory for cellular operators to compensate subscribers for call drops from January 1.
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) P S Narasimha made the submission before a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath which listed the pleas of cellular operators challenging the call drop regulations for further hearing on January 6.
The ASG, however, made it clear that the regulations would come into force from January 1 as was decided.
Senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for the cellular operators, told the court that the penalty was being levied without considering the infrastructure problems faced by the companies.
Meanwhile, the operators had sought quashing of the TRAI's October 16 ruling.
Besides Cellular Operators Association of India, the association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India and 21 telecom operators, including Vodafone, Bharti Airtel and Reliance in their plea said, the decision has been issued knowing fully well that laws of physics makes it impossible to provide a hundred percent call drop-free network.
