New Delhi: The telecommunication department has told that India will stiffen standards for spectrum assignation to wireless telecom operators, and will permit subsisting operators to offer countrywide services on alternate wireless platforms.

The ministry told that there will not be a maximum limit to the number of operators in any of the 23 service areas, which frame the Indian wireless map.

But the allotment of licenses and of range to run mobile networks will be depending on availability, it said.

The conclusions, released in August were in proportion to the telecom regulator suggestions.

India’s telecom operators make use of two applied sciences for wireless networks. The foremost GSM platform is used by market leader Bharti Airtel Ltd, Vodafone Essar Ltd and state-run BSNL, whereas No. 2 company Reliance Communications has the majority of its subscribers on the CDMA platform.

The conclusion means Reliance that presently runs GSM services in eight different zones, can brought out these services countrywide on the fee payment. On Friday, the company told that the administration had sanctioned its proposition to do so.

The ministry stated that it would make a board to advise the subscriber’s minimum number required by subsisting operators to be eligible for added spectrum.

The regulator had suggested bringing up the mandatory number of subscribers by two to six times, which analysts said would weigh down surviving GSM operators and which a lobby group of GSM manipulators protested against.

In a note dated Oct. 16, Subhabrata Majumder, Macquarie Research analyst, said, “... except for Bharti and Vodafone, most other GSM operators will take a long time to achieve subscriber benchmarks to be eligible for further spectrum allocation.”

The ministry said that rules regularizing amalgamations will be brought out individually.