‘Revenue separation for 3G easily do-able’

Our Bureau New Delhi, Oct. 13 The Cellular Operators Association of India on Monday said that separating revenues from 3G and 2G services was a simple exercise and the issue was being blown out of proportion by vested parties to derail the 3G auction. Mr. T. V. Ramachandran, Director General, COAI, said that there were several precedents to establish that segregation of 2G and 3G revenues was do-able. “The Government has decided, under its dual allocation policy, that CDMA and GSM revenue streams would be reported separately for payment of license fee and spectrum usage charges. 3G, which was also known as WCDMA, could similarly be easily distinguished from GSM and therefore if GSM and CDMA revenues could be separately identified and reported, it would be as simple and easy to segregate GSM and WCDMA revenues,” Mr... [read full story]