DoT deals Bharti Rs10-crore blow
13 Oct 2005
New Delhi: The government has issued a show cause notice to Bharti Infotel for violating its ISP license asking it to explain why a penalty should not be levied. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has sent a notice, levying and recovering an amount of Rs10.10 crore, besides asking the private service provider to submit an additional performance bank guarantee of Rs3.6 crore.
Recently DoT inspected 13 subscribers of Bharti's internet leased lines and found they were receiving international voice calls. DoT says the set up was unauthorisedly used for receiving international calls routed through internet leased line provided by Bharti Infotel and further illegally switched to various subscribers.
DoT said that this illegal arrangement, which connected international calls to local number bypassing the switching networks have caused huge revenue loss to the government and other licensed telecom operators.
DoT has issued a notice to recover Rs10,10,07,639 from Bharti Infotel. DOT has given Bharti 30 days to explain why the penalty should not be levied against them.
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