We filed the petition the day before yesterday, a top BSNL official said, adding the regulator's decision to phase out ADC is arbitrary and indifference to the rural telephony initiatives of the public sector major.
Access Deficit Charge is a levy paid by private telecom operators to BSNL for meeting the cost of unprofitable operations in rural areas.
Private players have been opposing the payment of ADC saying it amounts to funding opposition.
In March 2008, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has removed the Access Deficit Charge (ADC).
As per its road-map the sectoral regulator has decided to abolish the ADC from 2008-09.
For the financial year 2007-08, Trai had red-uced ADC 37 per cent to Rs 2,000 crore from Rs 3,200 crore.
