New Delhi: Beleaguered telecom operator Vodafone Idea got significant relief this week when the Supreme Court allowed the government to reassess the company’s adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues up to 2016–17, effectively opening a narrow but crucial window for the cash-strapped telco to potentially reduce its massive liabilities.

The dispute over the definition of “gross revenue”—the base on which telecom operators pay license fees and spectrum usage charges—reached the top court following efforts by Vodafone Idea to convince the government that the calculations of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) were full of mathematical and accounting errors.

What the case is about

The case goes back to the shift from the fixed license-fee model to the revenue-sharing regime introduced und

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