New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- The department of telecommunications (DoT) has stepped in to solve the network crisis at Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), asking operator Adani Group to allow telecom companies to deploy network at the airport in accordance with the law. In a 16 February letter to Adani Airport Holdings Ltd, the DoT said NMIA qualifies as a "public entity" under the Telecom Act, 2023, and, therefore, must allow carriers to deploy the network. The intervention from the telecom department has come at a time when passengers at the airport have been complaining about the absence of mobile network from private telecom operators. Telcos alleged that the airport operator asked them to utilise its own exclusive in-building telecom net...