Section 16 in International Telecommunication Cable Landing Stations Access Facilitation Charges and Co-location Charges Regulations, 2012
16. M/s TCL and M/s Bharti Airtel did not provide any specific 'utilisation factor'. M/s Bharti Airtel commented that 'utilisation factor' should be kept keeping in view the past trends on low utilisation and further adjusted for future requirement. In support, they submitted low figures of average utilisation of cables landing at Chennai and Mumbai CLSs. M/s TCL has submitted that TRAI's assumption of capacity design of 60G and 70% capacity utilisation across all landing stations is not correct because the actual uptake of access facilitation varies from CLS to CLS. They have also submitted low figures of forecasted capacity utilisation in some CLS and said that it was improper to assume an access facilitation uptake on the first day to be 42G (70% of 60G).
