Want to see business plan to tackle arrears, issues: Centre asks Voda Idea

Vi is also in talks with Indus Towers which has asked Vi to pay its dues of Rs 7,000 crore by November or face action

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked Vodafone Idea (Vi) to come back to it with a business plan soon in light of its decision not to launch 5G services for now (unlike its competitors Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel) and in view of its assessment of the possible impact of BSNL’s impending launch of 4G in a few months and then 5G by August 15.  

“We are worried about Vi as we want to have three private players and one government player in the market. The global trend now is to have two to three players.  The conversion of