Government will finalise within a month the framework for unified licencing (Ul) that will enable users to get a host of services such as mobile, landline, DTH and cable TV from a single company without the entity necessarily owning the full infrastructure.
The regime will be finalised after considering all the legal options, Telecom Secretary R Chandrasekhar said on Thursday.
“Ul documents need legal vetting. It should take around one month,” Chandrasekhar told reporters here.
Once the Ul framework comes into force, telecom companies holding the licence will be able to provide all services that existing licences permit as well as share spectrum and other active part of telecom infrastructure that were not permitted earlier.
Telecom service providers who want to provide any additional service apart from current offerings will have to go for unified licence. In case of merger and acquisitions also, companies need to go for unified licence.