@ksh@T 20 Report post Posted October 10, 2005 Bharti under DoT scrutiny for violating ISP licence New Delhi: In a major blow to private telecom operator Bharti, the government has issued a show-cause notice to Bharti Infotel for violating ISP license and asked it to explain why a penalty should not be levied. As a preliminary action, Department of Telecom (DoT) has sent a notice, levying and recovering an amount of Rs 10.10 crore, besides asking the private service provider to submit an additional performance bank guarantee of Rs 3.6 crore. DoT took the decision after inspecting 13 subscribers of Bharti’s Internet Leased lines where they were found receiving international voice calls. “This set up was unauthorisedly used for receiving international calls routed through internet leased line provided by you (Bharti Infotel) and further illegally switched to various subscribers,” DoT said in the notice. This illegal arrangement, which connected international calls to local number bypassing the duly permitted switching networks have caused huge revenue loss to the government and other licensed telecom operators, DoT said. Bharti officials were not available for comments. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
linuxguy 0 Report post Posted October 11, 2005 government is freakin' hungry for money! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
