No coercive action against telcos for dues: DoT

The department of telecom (DoT) on Thursday said that it won’t take coercive action against telecom firms to immediately recover dues, providing some relief to operators like Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel. A fresh plea by telecom operators is to be heard by the Supreme Court next week. Reliance Jio, however, decided to pay its dues of around Rs 195 crore to the DoT.