Telcos to pay fee for activities covered under scope of licence, says DoT

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said that only activities covered under the scope of licence will be classified as telecom activities and they will be used to calculate adjusted gross revenue (AGR).

Experts said that this clarification has brought relief to a debt-laden industry as carriers need to pay eight per cent of AGR as licence fee.

They estimate that roughly 10 per cent of an operator’s overall revenue comes from non-telecom activities, according to a report in The Economic Times (ET).