AGR Issue
Tracing the AGR Saga: Two Decades of Legal Battles That Shaped Indian Telecom
This compilation brings together two decades of landmark documents, judgments, and regulatory decisions that form the spine of India’s Adjusted...
Reevaluating AGR Dues: Possible Discrepancies in DoT’s Assessment
I have been closely monitoring the AGR dispute for several years. No doubt it has unfolded as an extraordinarily perplexing...
The AGR Case: Examining the Exclusion Logic for PSUs and Its Parity with ISPs
On October 10th, the newspapers carried a significant report, announcing that the Honorable Supreme Court of India had granted its consent...
Indian Telecom’s AGR Tangle – Who is at fault?
On 1st Sept 2020, the historic AGR case, which had rattled the telecom sector for the past two decades, concluded...
DoT AGR Demand – Operator Impact
(This note has been edited after availability of actual numbers in DoT's application for modification filed on 16th March 2020)...
Was SC’s Interpretation of AGR the Real Intent of DoT?
The recent SC judgment on AGR dispute has created ripples in the telecom sector. The reason - the telecom companies...
Improving AGR Regulation
The whole purpose of regulating the telecom sector is to use incentives/disincentives as tools to drive government objectives. What are...
AGR Issue: Operator Payment Options
This purpose of this note is to analyse the impact on Bharti and VodafoneIdea in case DoT was to collect...
The AGR System – A Bottleneck for Motivating Investment
Investments are crucial for the growth of the Indian telecom sector. One way of triggering investments is by laying out...
SC Judgment on AGR: Rationale and Implications
Recently (24th Oct 2019), the Supreme Court decided the "definition of revenue" on which license fee shall be applicable. The case...