Vodafone Aggrieved by free voice calls of Reliance Jio: Vodafone to HC

[Devesh]

Vodafone India today told the Delhi High Court that it was aggrieved by the free voice services being provided by Reliance Jio (RJIO) as it violated TRAI's tariff orders.

Vodafone contended before Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva that inter-connection usage charges (IUC) form the floor price as per tariff orders of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and "one cannot go below that".

The company alleged that by providing the free voice calls and continuing to do so as a promotional offer beyond a period of 90 days, RJIO was violating IUC norms and TRAI tariff orders and regulations.

It said it was also aggrieved by TRAI's stand of allowing the alleged violation to continue.

Opposing maintainability of Vodafone's plea, RJIO said if the telecom major was aggrieved by TRAI's decision giving a clean chit to RJIO, then it should be challenged before the Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) as done by Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular.

The court thereafter listed the matter for hearing on February 27 when it will hear arguments on maintainability of Vodafone's petition alleging inaction by TRAI against RJIO for alleged violation of tariff orders and regulations.

During the day's hearing, Vodafone contended that free plans can be offered as long as the weighted average of all other plans of a telecom service provider (TSP) complied with IUC floor price.

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[Aviral Sangal]

I am aggrieved by your incorrect billing, non responsive complaint mechanism and absurdly high prices for postpaid customers.

 

[scorpionking76]

Change your service provider

 

[Technoglitch]

It is time to oust vodafone from India

 

[Aviral Sangal]

They have installed 3 boosters for me at my place and airtel too have bad connectivity. That's why sticking with Vodafone for the movement. Have 6 connections

 

[IndianMascot]

Vodafone unable to digest the loss of profit they have been looting till now from us.

 

[Aviral Sangal]

Actually we all are seeing it the wrong way. We are seeing it as exit of Vodafone from India which is not the case. They are Mergering their operations with idea and they will have stake in the new identity so they are very much in india.

 

[IndianMascot]

Not for long. They will gradually wind up and sell all stakes to Idea. But problem is more the merger and exit, lesser is the competition and its certainly bad thing for us as consumer.

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[DashMajor]

There is no competition even now as well, those who have high price is somewhat good, those who gradually less price is also weak in quality.

No offers, nothing special everyone serving the same price for the packs.

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[Technoglitch]

Any merger would lead to exit or complete take over of the majority stake holder.
For example, until 2012, Ayngaran was releasing BD and DVDS and as soon as Eros took over as the controlling partner, ayngaran stopped the production of dvds and BDs and till this day there have not been any tamil BDs in the international market.