Devesh
Core Member
The face-off between Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) and the country's top telcos has intensified with the Mukesh Ambani-owned company accusing the industry body that represents existing operators of trying to sabotage its entry and malign its name.
In identical but separate letters to Telecom Secretary JS Deepak and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Chairman RS Sharma, Jio said incumbent telcos were deliberately not providing it adequate access points, or points of interconnection (PoIs), to terminate its calls/data, thereby forcing it to delay its commercial launch.
"Due to in sufficient interconnection, even the existing 15 lakh test users are experiencing 65 per cent call failures... It would clearly not be prudent for RJIL to contemplate launching of commercial services with this level of call failures," Jio said in the letters written on Wednesday.
Reliance Industries' telecom unit asked the government and the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) to ensure that existing players comply with licensing agreements and augment PoIs with Jio.
The letter comes after COAI - representing top telcos including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular - wrote to the telecom department (DoT) on Monday, urging it to immediately ask Jio to snap all connections provided to 1.5 million users as it was allegedly by passing regulations by offering full-fledged services under the guise of 'test' connections.
Reliance Jio says incumbent telcos trying to 'sabotage' its debut, defaming it | ET Telecom
In identical but separate letters to Telecom Secretary JS Deepak and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Chairman RS Sharma, Jio said incumbent telcos were deliberately not providing it adequate access points, or points of interconnection (PoIs), to terminate its calls/data, thereby forcing it to delay its commercial launch.
"Due to in sufficient interconnection, even the existing 15 lakh test users are experiencing 65 per cent call failures... It would clearly not be prudent for RJIL to contemplate launching of commercial services with this level of call failures," Jio said in the letters written on Wednesday.
Reliance Industries' telecom unit asked the government and the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) to ensure that existing players comply with licensing agreements and augment PoIs with Jio.
The letter comes after COAI - representing top telcos including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular - wrote to the telecom department (DoT) on Monday, urging it to immediately ask Jio to snap all connections provided to 1.5 million users as it was allegedly by passing regulations by offering full-fledged services under the guise of 'test' connections.
Reliance Jio says incumbent telcos trying to 'sabotage' its debut, defaming it | ET Telecom
