The Jio Scam
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In telecom industry there are licenses in the name of spectrum to be taken from the government in order to provide telecom services in the nation. The government issues three types of licenses: 1. Mobile Internet Connection License 2. Cable Broadband License 3. Wireless Broadband License Back in the year 2007, the government issued telecom spectrum for wireless broadband connection and in the year 2010 TRAI clarified that this spectrum could only be used for broadband internet and not for voice calls. Companies like Vodafone, Airtel, BSNL had spectrum for both mobile connection and cable broadband so they thought that this spectrum was of no use for them and thus they didn't participate in the auction. But in 2011 for the spectrum auction a company named Infotel who had a networth of just only 2.5 crores had applied for the bid. The auction had a compulsion that the company applying for the bid must have 250 crores bank gaurantee. Infotel surprisingly got the bank gaur...