No relief: DoT notice asks telcos to pay AGR dues in 3 months

The department of teleco-mmunications (DoT) on Wednesday sent out notices to all the telecom operators and internet service providers to pay their licence fee and spectrum usage charge dues to the government as per the definition of what constitutes adjusted gross revenue given by the Supreme Court in its order dated October 24.

“It is submitted that the Supreme Court while delivering the judgment dated 24.10.2019 also ordered as follows: We give three months’ time to deposit the amount, which is due and compliance be reported,”, DoT’s letter issued on November 13 read. This means that the operators have time till January 25, 2020 to pay their dues which totals to around Rs. 1.3 lakh crore.