
Bhart Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in India, needs to pay about Rs 8.49 crore in penalties to the Indian government. This penalty stems out of an agreement between the telco and the Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN) program, earlier known as Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF). Airtel had agreed to commission mobile sites in Assam and Sikkim as part of the DBN, but several sites have still not be commissioned. The deadline for the telco was June 2019.
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