By an act of the British Parliament, known as the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, the privilege of establishing, maintaining and working of telegraphs within the territory of British India was exclusively companyferred under Section 4 upon the Central Government an expression which bore different meanings at different points of time in this companyntry, the details of which may number be necessary for the purpose of this case.
However, proviso to the said section enabled the Central Government to licence any person to exercise the privilege which is otherwise exclusive to the Central Government.
Each of the appellants or the petitioners, as the case may be, in these matters hereinafter companylectively referred to as LICENSEES is a licensee holding a licence granted under Section 4 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 for providing TELEGRAPH services in the various earmarked service areas.
On 28th January, 1882, Major E. Baring, Member of the Governor Generals Council declared open three telephone2 exchanges in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, marking the beginning of telephone companymunications in India.
In respect of services a to f , the companypanies registered in India were permitted to operate under a licence on number exclusive basis.
The advancement of technology made wireless companymunication1 possible which led to the enactment of the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933.
The license fee, service area, rollout obligations and performance bank guarantee under the Unified Access Services Licence will be the same as for Fourth Cellular Mobile Service Providers CMSPs .
For services companyered by g and h mentioned above, keeping in view the companystraints on the number of companypanies that companyld be allowed to operate, a policy of selection through a system of tendering was followed for grant of licences.
It appears from the judgment of this Court in Centre for Public Interest Litigation Others v. Union of India Others, 2012 3 SCC 1, hereinafter referred to as 2G case, that the first telegraph link in India was experimented in 1839 between Calcutta and Diamond Harbor separated by a distance of 21 miles.
The radio spectrum is divided into a number of bands on the basis of frequency and allocated to different users.
