The Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices (BICP) will study the financial viability of radio paging operators, on the same lines of an exercise it is carrying out for cellular operators.
"BICP has been requested to carry out a techno-economic study of paging service industry. The report of the BICP is awaited," minister of state for communications Kabindra Purkayastha said in reply to an unstarred question in the Lok Sabha last week.
The department of telecommunications had earlier asked BICP to study the financial status of the cellular industry, after the industry had sought a host of sops.
Including extension of the licence period from ten to 15 years and a two-year moratorium on payment of licence fees to tide over their financial difficulties. The report on the cellular operators is expected by September or so.