S Tel Not to Discontinue Services Till DoT Provides Security Concerns Details

S Tel Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture of the Siva Group and Bahrain Telecommunications Co (Batelco) was given a notice from Department of Telecom (DoT) to stop its mobile services in three telecom circles.

S Tel has license for Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir and Assam circles. However S Tel is still operating its services in few of them.
DoT has issued a notice to S Tel to stop its mobile services in Bihar, Himachal Pradesh and Orissa for due to some security concern issue. However the security concern details are not revealed yet. According to S Tel they have fulfilled all the terms and conditions before launching its services. So S Tel has said that they would not stop services until they would get the full details of the security concerns from DoT.
P Swaminathan, Director, Siva Group said, "We have received the letter. We are also surprised by this kind of letter especially after the government gave us permission on December 11 and 21 last year to launch services. We are trying to ascertain specific facts which are behind the national security concerns. We have sought further clarifications from the Department of Telecom (DoT) so that whatever concerns are there, we could address them."