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After duties collected from mobile operators fell sharply in 2017, India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) plans to carry out special audits to determine if the companies underreported their revenues, The Economic Times (ET) reported.

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) petitioned the country’s Department of Telecoms (DoT) to focus on creating a level playing field when working up a new telecoms policy.

The Indian government plans to begin local screening of imported telecoms equipment used in networks and handsets from 1 April 2017.

LIVE FROM GSMA MOBILE 360 INDIA: The government of India is committed to making spectrum scarcity – a problem plaguing the telecoms industry for decades – a thing of the past, proclaimed J. S. Deepak, secretary of the Department of Telecom (DoT).

India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) has asked Reliance Communications (RCom) to pay almost INR70 billion ($1. 05 billion) to ‘liberalise’ spectrum in 16 regions in order to share and trade the airwaves.

India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) expects the Defence Ministry to release 150MHz of spectrum in the 1. 7 to 2GHz bands in three months, in the first phase of its spectrum harmonisation plan.

India’s operators have added more than 2,000 telecoms towers in the Delhi area over the past three months to address the spike in dropped calls.