Bharti Airtel Ltd has trading in red despite very good quarterly results announced yesterday. TEC, the technical arm of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), is planning to recommend a steep increase in spectrum usage charges for GSM mobile service providers that seek additional spectrum beyond 6.2 MHz.
Bharti Airtel is seeking more bandwidth to offer better mobile-phone services.
TEC has also recommended increasing the minimum number of subscribers required for operators to qualify for additional spectrum.