Reliance Industries Ltd.

Reliance Industries, which holds pan-India 4G telecom spectrum for data services, reportedly has applied for a licence to offer mobile telephony. This move comes right after DoT issued long-awaited migration guidelines, which pave way for Internet service providers (ISP) that have BWA spectrum, to offer mobile telephony service by paying an extra fee of Rs 1,658.57 crore.

With an objective to provide freedom to players from limitations on use of technology for services and allow them to take benefits under the new sectoral policy, the Government put in place new Unified Licence (UL) regime early this month.

Further, Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance group company Reliance Jio Infocomm, which is the sole player to have pan-India BWA spectrum, already is in the process of testing Internet based calls on mobile networks.