Trai Chairman RS Sharma, who is also in Barcelona, said on Tuesday that the telcos are free to go to court and contest the order.“We have heard Trai’s response and since the order binds us from conducting our business in an orderly manner, I cannot envisage anything other than a legal challenge to counter this order,” Mittal said. “We believe we must be provided with the rights to conduct our business in the marketplace. We will agitate at the appropriate forums to have the freedom to do it.”Mittal added that a telco cannot operate with its hands tied. His statement follows similar comments by Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao.Trai’s order of February 16 gives pricing flexibility only to operators with less than 30% of the market’s subscribers or revenue. If you’ve heard, the promoters of Aircel have said, ‘We’re done, we’ve handed over the keys,’” he said.

Source: Economic Times February 28, 2018 10:41 UTC