2G scam: ‘Applications of Tata Teleservices received after cut-off date’

Former Telecom Secretary D S Mathur today told a Delhi court that Tatas had applied for GSM technology after the cut-off date for receipt of applications for the 2G licences,while he favoured examining all applications chronologically.

Former Telecom Secretary D S Mathur today told a Delhi court that Tatas had applied for GSM technology after the cut-off date for receipt of applications for the 2G licences,while he favoured examining all applications chronologically.

Testifying as a prosecution witness,Mathur said he had “desired” that all the applications received by the Department of Telecom (DoT) for grant of Unified Access Services Licences (UASL) should be considered in chronological order.

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Vouching for the principle of examining applications in chronological order,Mathur told Special CBI Judge O P Saini,”It is correct that I desired the applications be considered in chronological order as they were received.”

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Referring to Tatas’ applications for dual technology licence,Mathur said,”It is correct that these two applications (of Tata Teleservices Ltd and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd) were received after the receipt of new applications were stopped on October 1,2007.”

“(But),it is incorrect that my view was that these two applications be considered only after the other applications have been considered,” he said,clarifying that any telecom operator,”who applies for dual technology licence,has an advantage in grant of spectrum because he gets spectrum as an existing licencee.”

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