A brief overview of what's making news in the telecom space, especially around the 2G spectrum scam. - Swan Telecom director Vinod Goenka, Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Ltd managing director Sanjay Chandra, and three top officials of Reliance ADA Group - Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair are in a Tihar prison cell after a special CBI court rejected their bail plea in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Their bail plea will be heard on Tuesday. MoneyLife. - Unitech Wireless MD Sanjay Chandra isn't acceding to the resignation demand by its Norwegian partner Telenor (details). Telenor has invested INR 61 billion in Unitech Wireless and holds a 67.25 per cent ownership share, and company has almost 25 million customers in India. A charge sheet from India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) names both Chandra and Unitech Wireless. In the meantime, Chandra has asked Unitech Wireless' board to appoint an alternate director for dealing with company affairs, but hasn't resigned as Managing Director, according to a report in the Economic Times. We haven't been able to find a copy of the note from Unitech confirming this, and have written to them. - More than five months after TRAI recommended the cancellation of 69 licences for not rolling out mobile services in time, the department of telecom (DoT) has issued only eight notices, referring instead to the definition of coverage in licence conditions. The Financial Express - Telecom secretary, R. Chandrasekhar, has said that his department has received replies from all operators…
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