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Some of India’s leading mobile telephony operators are apprehensive that their grand plans to combine resources to offer nationwide third-generation, or 3G, services may run into a regulatory roadblock — if the watchdog takes a different interpretation of existing norms around roaming, when applied to data services. While Idea Cellular believes that intra-circle roaming is already prevalent in 2G and has explicit permission in the existing regulatory framework, another large carrier that features among the top three operators in the country, said that any such pact or agreement among operators for 3G spectrum sharing would require regulatory nod. Source