Online players selling wireless equipment illegally: COAI

Despite repeated notices from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), several major e-commerce players including Amazon.in and Flipkart, continue to sell wireless equipment, including mobile signal boosters and repeaters.

According to Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), an association of mobile service providers, telecom equipment, internet services providers and other digital technologies’ companies, the e-commerce companies have been selling such devices that claims to enhance signals in certain telecom spectrum bands that are assigned only to Service Providers licensed by the Central Government under the Indian Telegraph Act.

Sale of such devices, without valid license, is an offence and tantamounts to fine and imprisonment of upto three years or more, COAI said.

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