Devesh
Core Member
Bharti Airtel has knocked on the doors of the Prime Minister’s Office, complaining that Reliance Jio Infocomm’s constant “rhetoric” over inadequate points of interconnect (PoIs) is untrue and its calls are failing to go through because of glitches on the new entrant’s network.
Jio, which started commercial telecom services on September 5, termed Airtel’s claims “malicious and misleading”. In a statement on Tuesday, it said Airtel was trying to divert attention from its own “anti-competitive and anti-consumer actions and violations of licence conditions which are being investigated by authorities”. It added that there were no technical issues on its network.
Airtel’s letter, a copy of which is believed to have also been sent to telecom minister Manoj Sinha and captured in a release issued earlier in the day, said the telco has released 35,000 points of interconnect to Jio in five months, while it had provided more than 40,000 points to Vodafone over 21years.
“The capacity provided is ideal for serving over 190 million customers on the Jio network and is more than double of the 72.5 million total customers currently claimed by Jio,” Airtel said. It appears that the “constant rhetoric by Jio with regard to PoIs is aimed at covering up technical issues in their own network or their inability to activate the PoIs given”.
Bharti Airtel: airtel knocks on pmo door against reliance jio ‘rhetoric’, Telecom News, ET Telecom
Jio, which started commercial telecom services on September 5, termed Airtel’s claims “malicious and misleading”. In a statement on Tuesday, it said Airtel was trying to divert attention from its own “anti-competitive and anti-consumer actions and violations of licence conditions which are being investigated by authorities”. It added that there were no technical issues on its network.
Airtel’s letter, a copy of which is believed to have also been sent to telecom minister Manoj Sinha and captured in a release issued earlier in the day, said the telco has released 35,000 points of interconnect to Jio in five months, while it had provided more than 40,000 points to Vodafone over 21years.
“The capacity provided is ideal for serving over 190 million customers on the Jio network and is more than double of the 72.5 million total customers currently claimed by Jio,” Airtel said. It appears that the “constant rhetoric by Jio with regard to PoIs is aimed at covering up technical issues in their own network or their inability to activate the PoIs given”.
Bharti Airtel: airtel knocks on pmo door against reliance jio ‘rhetoric’, Telecom News, ET Telecom
