DoT issues LoIs to nine firms

Amid tight security and an altercation with HFCL chief Mahendra Nahata at Sanchar Bhawan, headquarters of the Department of Telecom (DoT), nine companies among 45 applicants were offered letters of intent (LoIs) for unified access service licences (UASL).

Within hours, a number of these companies paid the required fees and were allotted licences, but not the spectrum, the radio frequencies that enable wireless communications.

Among them were BK Modi