New Delhi: Government will issue final guidelines on single licence for basic and cellular services in a day or two to enforce the unified licence regime under which Reliance would be asked to pay about three crore less than Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) recommendation of Rs 1581 crore, for becoming eligible to offer full mobility on its Wireless in Local LOOP (WLL) phones.

"Guidelines will be issued in a day or two. TRAI had given an indicative calculation of licence fee to be paid by basic service providers for migrating to new regime and the final calculation has to come from the licensor (Department of Telecommunications)," TRAI Chairman Pradip Baijal told reporters.

With the final guidelines in place this week, the payment of additional entry and penal interest, if any, would have to be, made upfront along with the request on plain paper for migration to Unified Access Services Licence.

On receipt of the request along with the requisite payments, DoT will carry out actual calculations and will intimate the different of amount, if any, based on actual calculation, to the concerned applicant, which shall have to be paid within 3 working days from the date of receipt of demand failing which the application would be rejected and the amounts paid by the applicant shall be refunded within a period of 15 days, draft set of guidelines say.

However, no interest shall be paid by DoT for the amounts deposited for migration to Unified Access Service Licence.

The licence fee, service area, roll out obligations and performance bank guarantee under the Unified Access Service Licence would be same as for the existing cellular service providers.

PTI