Jio gets tribunal relief on DoT’s demand for Rs 1,300 crore more

In a major relief to Reliance Jio, the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has stayed the department of telecommunications’ (DoT’s) demand for Rs 1,300 crore more towards spectrum usage charge (SUC) for the 2016-21 period.

The company had moved the tribunal over DoT’s methodology of computing SUC in cases where a telecom service provider has a spectrum sharing pact with another operator.

While coming out with the guidelines related to spectrum sharing way back in 2015, DoT had said that companies who enter into such pacts will have to pay an additional 0.5% over their regular SUC, which is calculated on the adjusted gross revenue of the operators.