however before it could snowball into a fullblown diplomatic row between india and china the ministry of external affairs set to rest all such speculation by denying the move have wll will pay trai the fractured indian telecom scenario does not present any better picture to investors either after a long wait the telecom regulator came out with its interconnect and revenuesharing norms for various services on friday there is little charm left for basic services operators in entering the mobile operators domain through wireless in local loop services as per the new norms basic operators will have to pay 95 per cent of the total revenue on wll services earned on international and national long distance calls to ild and nld operators the same sharing formula currently applies to cellular operators as a result of this move the trai has removed the possibility of crosssubsidising wll calls with retained earnings from longdistance calls this restores a levelplaying field between the cellular and wll services except in terms of the larger licence fees paid by cellular operators the move is unlikely to make basic service operators like reliance and hughes happy as bulk of the cash cow services like ild and nld will not come to them this week the trai also laid down quality of service norms for the internet service providers of india both for leased lines as well as dialup services the norms stipulate that isps should provide access within 30 seconds in addition to several other measures aimed to boost customer satisfaction the norms did not come a day too late as isps too are busy signing their own drafted code of conduct