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Government earned 
8,300 Crore from telecom firms
New Delhi: The government earned 
8,307.85 crore from mobile telecom operators through license fee in 2008-09 and 4,112.3 crore in the first half this fiscal, a union minister said Monday.
Telecom operators pay 6 to 10 percent of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) to the government as license fee, Minister of State for Telecom and IT Gurudas Kamat told parliament.
Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile phone operator by users, paid the maximum license fee of 2,246.27 crore last fiscal. Kamat said the government's earnings were rising as the country's telecom industry was fast expanding its operations. The government earned 7,290 crore from the sector during 2007-08, up from 5,989 crore it collected the year earlier.
The minister added that there was no plan to appoint an ombudsman for the telecom industry to redress complaints of poor mobile telephony services.
Source: IANS
8,307.85 crore from mobile telecom operators through license fee in 2008-09 and 4,112.3 crore in the first half this fiscal, a union minister said Monday.
Telecom operators pay 6 to 10 percent of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) to the government as license fee, Minister of State for Telecom and IT Gurudas Kamat told parliament.
Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile phone operator by users, paid the maximum license fee of 2,246.27 crore last fiscal. Kamat said the government's earnings were rising as the country's telecom industry was fast expanding its operations. The government earned 7,290 crore from the sector during 2007-08, up from 5,989 crore it collected the year earlier.
The minister added that there was no plan to appoint an ombudsman for the telecom industry to redress complaints of poor mobile telephony services.
Source: IANS