Government Guidelines for Virtual Network Operators

By Payal Dwivedi on June 4, 2016 at 1:24 PM

Government issued license guidelines to (VNO) after the recommendations of Trai on VNO, the government has decided to grant Unified License VNO (UL VNO), the telecom department said in its guidelines.

It said VNOs were treated as extension of Network Service Operator or telecom service providers and “they would not be allowed to install equipment interconnecting with the network of other NSOs.

Regarding entry fee, the guideline said: “A one-time non-refundable entry fee for authorization of each service and service area shall be payable before signing of license agreement and thereafter for each additional authorization. The total amount of entry fee shall be subject to a maximum of Rs. 7.5 crore.”