Sunil Mittal hails ease of doing enterprise as Bharti Airtel will get spectrum allocation letter inside hours of dues fee

Bharti Enterprises Founder and Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal on Thursday praised the federal government’s strategy in the direction of the allocation of the 5G spectrum inside hours of paying the mandatory dues.

In a press release, the founding father of considered one of India’s oldest non-public telecom operators knowledgeable that Bharti Airtel obtained the spectrum allocation letter inside a number of hours of constructing an upfront fee to the Department of Telecom (DoT).

“Yesterday Airtel paid Rs 8312.4 crore towards spectrum dues and was provided the allocation letter for the designated frequency bands within hours. E-band allocation was given along with spectrum as promised,” Mittal mentioned within the assertion on Thursday.

“No Fuss, No Follow Up, No running around the corridors and No tall claims. This is ease of doing business at work in its full glory,” he added.

Bharti Airtel in an change submitting on Wednesday knowledgeable that it paid Rs 8,312.4 crore to DoT in the direction of the dues for 5G spectrum auctions which concluded lately.

The telco has paid 4 years of spectrum dues upfront and added that this upfront fee coupled with the moratorium on spectrum dues and AGR associated funds for 4 years will release future money flows and permit Airtel to dedicate sources to single-mindedly consider the 5G roll out, the submitting mentioned.

“In my over 30 years of first-hand experience with DOT, this is a first! Business as it should be. Leadership at work-Right at the top and at the helm of telecom. What a Change ! Change that can transform this nation – power its dreams to be a developed nation,” Mittal mentioned.

In the lately concluded 5G auctions, Bharti Airtel acquired 19,867.8 MHz spectrum by securing a pan-India footprint of three.5 GHz and 26 GHz bands and choose buy of radio waves in low and mid-band spectrum. It made a profitable bid of Rs 43,039.63 crore.

Airtel expects to roll out its 5G companies within the nation earlier than the top of this month.