SC to hear telcos' plea against HC order on call drop penalty today

March 04, 2016 08:21

The Supreme Court will today hear a plea of two cellular operator associations challenging Delhi high court order upholding telecom regulator TRAI's decision making it mandatory for them to compensate subscribers for call drops from January 1, 2016.

The plea of the associations was mentioned before a bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice U U Lalit on Thursday seeking urgent hearing on the matter.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the telecom associations, told the bench that this matter required urgent hearing as Delhi HC has upheld the TRAI order, after which the bench agreed to hear the plea today.

The high court had, earlier this week, upheld the October 16, 2015 decision of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) making it mandatory for cellular operators to pay consumers one rupee per call drop experienced on their networks, subject to a cap of Rs 3 a day.

The court order came while dismissing a batch of petitions filed by Cellular Operators Association of India, a body of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India and 21 telecom operators, including Vodafone, Bharti Airtel and Reliance.

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