Telecom operator Uninor has closed its Mumbai operations from midnight on Saturday following a Supreme Court order, which said all the operators who did not win spectrum in the previous auctions should close down services immediately.
The cancellation of licenses has affected 1.8 million (18 lakh) customers in Mumbai as of December, 2012.
The court ordered that the cancellation of licenses should be effective immediately and no temporary license would be granted to the company.
Telenor is the majority stakeholder of the Uninor. Telenor won rights to airwaves in six of those zones in an auction in November and has said it might decide to bid for spectrum in Mumbai zone in an auction due in March.
Telenor's permits in 22 zones were among those ordered to be revoked by India's Supreme Court last year after a massive scandal over the grant of cellular licenses in a 2008 sale.
(with inputs from ANI)
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