The Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) today reserved its judgment on the issue of allowing basic operators to use mobile switching centres for offering wireless-in-local-loop (WLL) limited mobility services.
The tribunal, which concluded its hearings today, asked all the parties to give written submissions of their arguments.
Cellular operators had gone to court demanding that basic operators be restricted to the V5.2 platform, which would limit the scope of their WLL services to those listed in their licence agreements.
Basic operators and the department of telecommunications (DoT), on the other hand, are opposing such a move.
While basic operators said restricting the network to only V5.2 would increase their operational costs, DoT said the government was in favour of adopting a
