TelecomLive April-2020

Adjusted Gross Revenue of Telecom Service providers for the last five quarters Sl Circle Type Reliance Jio Bharti Airtel (inc. Video Dec'18 Mar'19 Jun'19 Sep'19 Dec'19 % Dec'18 Mar'19 Jun'19 Sep'19 1 Bihar AS 770 781 873 925 1,083 41 376 469 521 477 2 MP AS 777 802 875 896 1,062 37 250 251 287 256 3 Maharashtra AS 727 762 819 867 1,021 40 348 339 403 416 4 AP AS 752 774 889 936 994 32 777 714 821 814 5 UP-East AS 608 642 707 757 901 48 375 401 484 448 6 TN & Chennai AS 685 708 790 829 842 23 769 671 808 836 7 Rajasthan AS 700 717 780 836 834 19 368 400 438 428 8 Gujarat AS 562 564 618 686 750 34 131 145 173 173 9 UP(W) AS 486 521 574 590 641 32 202 212 235 215 10 West Bengal AS 455 490 530 566 640 41 198 233 257 252 11 Karnataka AS 458 467 562 564 569 24 861 732 944 917 12 Delhi AS 377 394 415 483 524 39 419 224 522 504 13 Punjab AS 384 389 402 427 454 18 215 192 241 249 14 Mumbai AS 324 319 335 404 425 31 216 146 266 284 15 Orissa AS 303 332 367 395 416 37 179 196 211 197 16 Assam AS 232 245 275 293 309 33 155 165 178 178 17 Haryana AS 230 246 264 281 294 28 67 65 82 70 18 Kerala AS 238 242 264 280 289 21 135 114 148 154 19 Kolkata AS 87 100 105 140 197 128 136 120 146 149 20 J&K AS 127 135 128 134 135 6 116 (25) 127 100 21 North East AS 102 106 117 124 131 29 83 98 104 108 22 HP AS 100 104 110 119 121 20 62 59 70 68 Access Services Total 9,482 9,839 10,800 11,529 12,632 33 6,440 5,920 7,469 7,295 NLD 132 147 81 137 235 78 3,272 2,688 2,818 2,875 ILD 28 44 18 33 40 40 403 324 374 435 ISP 1 2 0 1 17 32 54 12 11 VSAT 26 (9) 28 25 Others Del & Mum NLD Del & Mum ISP Others Total 162 193 99 170 291 80 3,733 3,057 3,233 3,346 Grand Total 9,644 10,032 10,900 11,699 12,923 34 10,172 8,977 10,702 10,641 Quarterly growth 4 9 7 10 (12) 19 (1) Telecom Fundamentals Strong www.telecomlive.com 34 Telecom LIVE April 2020 minute for carrying their own NLD calls beyond 20 kms. Upto 20 km, the calls are treated as local calls. This is the tariff Trai had fixed as cap way back in 2015. There is a lack of transparency for NLD revenues of these two operators and this raises concerns of under-payments to govern- ment. What is the motivation for the two operators to fix a hyper NLD tariff. Is it a ploy or an internal jugglery to escape payment of spectrum usage charges (SUC), which is payable by all the telcos at the rate of 5 per cent of their AGR. Are they shifting the revenue of access services to NLD services because under NLD licenses, SUC is not chargeable. All these are relevant questions which are required to be answered in any examination of the AGR issue. We tried to calculate how much revenue they must have diverted from access services to NLD services. A rough calculation for the last three years is shown in a table at page 37 which pegs the avoided amount at Rs 1,427 crore by Bharti Airtel and Rs 2,690 crore by Vodafone Idea. Jio seeks govt approval to test self-designed 5G tech Reliance Jio, in a first, has sought government permission to