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To: Michael who wrote (1971)	8/12/2000 10:44:47 AM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12246

Maurice, you used to rant about how India was voting to keep itself poor. This seemed relevant to that. totaltele.com ------------------------------ Mobile & Satellite Indian mobile telecom firms urge lower state take By Reuters staff 11 August 2000 India's private sector cellular telephone service firms said on Thursday the government must reduce the share of revenues it levied as it was too high by global standards. A New Telecom Policy (NTP) announced in 1999 had allowed cellular firms to migrate from a fixed up-front licence fee system to a revenue share system with the government. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said in a presentation to an industry chamber the 17 percent revenue share recommended for the industry by the country's telecom regulator was among the highest in the world. Other telecom sectors shared a much lower portion of their revenues with the government, the COAI said. The paging services shared only five percent of revenues while global mobile personal communications by satellites shared 10 percent. Internet Service Providers were completely exempt from any revenue sharing, the COAI said. Cellular firms have been operating in India since 1995 but faced severe financial problems until the announcement of the policy on account of the high licence fee commitments to the government. The COAI said the 17 percent revenue share would increase end-user costs and defeat the policy's objectives of providing affordable telephony. India had about 2.2 million cellular telephone subscribers at the end of June 2000. © 1999 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.