
"In November 2010, the DoT issued a show cause notice to RCOM for shutting down telephone towers in 13 telecom circles that it had put up with money allocated from the Universal Service Obligation Fund and imposed a fine of Rs 50 crore. But by the time the file reached me in February 2011, RCOM had restored the services. Hence, action could not be initiated for termination of services as per the licence agreement signed between DoT and RCOM, but only for disruption of services as per the agreement signed between USOF and RCO |