There was some relief for India’s beleaguered mobile operators last week, when the country’s Supreme Court issued its final judgement in the controversial adjusted gross revenue (AGR) issue, giving the operators 10 years to pay their back-dated fees. The Court had previously imposed orders for huge back-payments related to the accounting changes, totalling about $19bn – most of it applying to Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea. The fees threatened to wreck the MNOs’ already fragile 5G business case, after they had already suffered from price wars sparked by the entry of disruptive newcomer Reliance Jio, and were facing large sums to buy 5G spectrum. Vodafone had even threatened to exit the market altogether if the AGR fines were not reduced,…