Ever since supreme court had cancelled licenses awarded to operators since 10th Jan 2008, the COAI (the association driven by major operators Airtel, Vodafone and Idea) is trying to include 19 licenses of TATA Tele also along with the 122 licenses got cancelled. On this matter, there is a cold war between COAI and Tata Tele.
Though Tata lost its 3 licenses, the other 19 licenses were excluded from the list as they were awarded to TATA in the month of Oct 2007 and the court verdict clearly says all licenses awarded to operators from Jan 10 2008 to be cancelled. But COAI is alleging that these 19 licenses were awarded during the period of A.Raja and needs to be cancelled. Also they have sought legal opinion on this case and ready to approach court and DOT on the same.
Apparently this move will adversely affect the consolidation talks among TATA docomo and one of the other new operator who wants to merge their business under one umbrella. Once this merger happens, the new consolidated operator will become as strong as top 3.
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