Telecommunication services through earth station set up by the assessee cannot be characterized either basic or cellular and, therefore assessee not entitled to deduction u/s. 80IA

 The learned D.R has vehemently contended before us that no assessee can be said to be providing telecommunication services unless such services are provided from one end to the other end. According to him, the assessee is operating as backbone industry and connect the calls received through other service providers and, therefore, does not provide any service to the actual user of the phone. In my opinion, this contention cannot be accepted for the reason that legislature itself has allowed the deduction to telecommunication services through sa

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