HC dismisses plea against RCom and Tata Tele

The Delhi High Court today provided relief to Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices when it dismissed a petition filed by rival mobile telephone service operators that had sought to block their entry into GSM mobile services, reports the Business Standard

Both Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices had started out with CDMA services but subsequently wanted to expand into the more popular GSM space.

Over two-thirds of the country’s 30 million mobile phone users are on the GSM platform. The average revenue per GSM user is about 30 per cent higher than that of a CDMA user.

Bharti Airtel, Vodafone-Essar, Idea Cellular, Spice Telecom and their lobby group, the Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI), had challenged the government’s decision to allow these two companies to use both CDMA and GSM technology platforms for their services. >> Read complete news