Telcos’ network costs rise; gap widens beyond %10,000 crore

Telecom industry body COAI has defended service providers’ call to increase mobile tariff citing continuous widening of gap between their expense on network deployment and revenue earned by them in return.

- PTI

While speaking at India Mobile Congress, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), Director General, SP Kochhar told PTI that the government has supported a lot to telecom operators with policies like right of way (RoW) but still several authorities continue to charge exorbitant fees for laying network elements.