The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India recommended the combined fine of Rs. 3,050 Crore on Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular for denying the interconnection points to Reliance Jio.
Reliance Jio has complained multiple times for not getting sufficient interconnect points. Other telecom operators said that they offered the enough points to Jio, Now, TRAI has found Airtel, Vodafone, and Idea guilty for the same issue and fined Rs. 50 crore per telecom zone.
Airtel and Vodafone were fined for 21 zones while Idea was fined for 19 Zones in the different part of the country.
“We had issued show-cause notices to three companies for PoI (point of interconnect) congestion. They were not giving the PoIs to the new entrant. We have written to the DoT today recommending penal action against these telcos,” a top official at Trai said on condition of anonymity.
On the other hand, Bharti Airtel said that Reliance Jio created unnecessary controversy to mask inadequacies in its own service. Other telecom operators are also claiming the same thing.
As a Reliance Jio user, I also face issues while calling to any other operator while calling from Jio to Jio works fine. Airtel and other Telecom operators must understand that being fair in the industry helps.
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