It seems like the cellular market is really hotting up as weeks after Indian telecom major Reliance Telecom’s application for GSM license, the department of telecom has cleared a proposal to issue a letter of intent (LoI) to mobile operator Aircel in eight of the 11 circles it had applied for licences.

The mobile operator, in which Malaysian firm Maxis holds a majority stake can enter the Delhi circle any time with DoT clearing its application for the LoI, which is a pre-requisite for a licence.

All the national operators, including Bharti Airtel,BSNL, Hutch, Reliance Communications, Idea Cellular and Tata Teleservices have already rolled out their services in Delhi.