New Delhi: B K Modi-led mobile operator Spice Communications Ltd has warned the government against manipulating the priority list of allocating Spectrum and demanded issuance of licences to them immediately.
Spice also offered to make payment of entry fees against issuance of Letters of Intent (LoIs) to it for 20 circles, the company's joint managing director Umang Das said in a letter to the Department of Telecom.
The company had applied for licenses in 20 circles in August 2006. He said as per official procedure, LoIs should be issued within 30 days of submission of applications. But these letters have not been awarded till now.
"The delay in processing our LoIs beyond prescribed time lines cannot be a basis for equating us with any applicant who may have applied for GSM initial Spectrum after our date of application," Das said.
He said any manipulation of issuance of initial GSM Spectrum allocation prior to Spice, through manipulation of any administrative processes would be illegal and cause irreparable damage and loss to the company.
Spice Communications' letter to DoT follows a similar warning by another GSM operator Idea Cellular Ltd last week.
The Aditya Vikram Birla group firm had also asked the government not to manipulate the priority list of allocating Spectrum and offered to pay Rs 993 crore toward entry fee and other charges for its pending nine licences.
It had also asked the DoT to issue nine letters of intent, for which application was made in June 2006.
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