71.   KPM cannot afford to sit back on the fact that it is the leading operator among the three private terminal operators in Port Klang or Malaysia.

72.   Marrying high art and canny business practices, Huang and other private operators now account for a third of production.

73.   Most private operators also want the TRAI Act to be amended, but in exactly the opposite direction to that suggested by the DoT.

74.   One will oversee and assign radio frequencies and TV channels to private operators and the other will oversee telecommunications.

75.   Private operators, however, want the act to be amended so that the regulator has unambiguous powers to settle such disputes.

76.   Supatra reiterated that concerned agencies could no longer arbitrarily give out concessions of their frequencies to private operators.

77.   Thailand has two big private operators for fixed-line service and two others for cellular service.

78.   That context was the need to provide a level playing field for the private operators vis-a-vis the DoT.

79.   The Confederation of Indian Industry particularly welcomed the opening of long distance phone services to private operators.

80.   The government sets the minimum air-time charges and maximum installation fees for cellular phone services, for which state companies compete with private operators.