Bharti spectrum offer anti-competitive: Tata

Tata Teleservices (TTSL) today dubbed the offer by Bharti Airtel to pay Rs 2,650 crore for spectrum "anti-competitive" and said the proposal confirmed that the Sunil Mittal-led company was hoarding surplus airwaves.

"Bharti's offer wipes away all that they had been advocating as principled stand," a TTSL spokesperson said. The GSM player's offer was due to "guilt" and a "pittance against the gains they make every year," the official said.

Bharti Airtel made the offer for all-India spectrum yesterday. (Click here to read the story)

CDMA players Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications are opposing the GSM-based service providers' contention on allocation of spectrum.

The CDMA camp has been demanding a level playing field with regard to allocation of spectrum, and TTSL had earlier rejected the proposal made by the department of telecom (DoT) on the ground that it talked about spectrum in the ratio of 2:1 in favour of GSM players.

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