RJio pays up ₹195-crore AGR dues

Reliance Jio was the only telecom operator to pay up its AGR dues of ₹195 crore, meeting the Supreme Court-set deadline.

The top court had set January 23 as the deadline to pay the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues.

“The company (Jio) has paid ₹195 crore clearing AGR dues as also other related licensing costs as of January 31, 2020,” an official source privy to the matter told BusinessLine.

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone-Idea (VIL) have requested the Department of Telecom (DoT) to give them more time to make their AGR payments as they want to know the outcome of their modification petition listed for hearing before the Supreme Court next week.