The government today refused to compensate cellular service companies for allowing fixed-line operators to provide limited mobility in their wireless-in-local-loop networks.
It also asked fixed-line operators to consider a compromise offered by the cellular services firms where they would accept the limited mobile services as legal if the fixed-line operators withdrew roaming facilities and stopped using mobile switching centres in their networks.
After a two-and-a-half-hour meeting of cellular and basic telephony operators, Vinod Vaish, secretary, department of telecommunications, said,