The TDSAT rejected the petition made by BSNL challenging the abolition of ADC (access deficit charge) by Trai.

“As regards ADC, we hold that the appellant (BSNL) has no legal right to ADC; that the ADC has rightly been designed as a depleting regime; that the ADC was rightly terminated in the year 2008-09 and that the manner of calculating ADC each year was fair and reasonable, given the facts available with TRAI.," said Justice Arun Kumar of TDSAT.

“We do not find any basis to support the contention of the appellant that the mobile termination charges have been wrongly fixed by the authority," he added.

TDSAT further said that BSNL did not have reliable data over the estimated loss to be suffered on account of the abolition of the ADC.