He had told this newspaper that since voting rights of COAI's members depend on the revenue of operators, the body's views represent only those of the dominant carriers. "This principle has been enunciated by the Supreme Court since cricket affects the masses. Against the number of cricket associations, India has over 1 billion mobile connections, representing nearly the entire population of the country, and hence the same principle would squarely apply to the COAI's regulations too. "Lately, Jio has also engaged in bitter letter war with India's top three incumbent carriers, accusing them of not releasing as many points of interconnctions (PoIs) that had been agreed on. The telecom arm of Reliance Industries has repeatedly complained that millions of calls between its 4G network and those of incumbent carriers were failing every day owing to inadequate PoIs released by the country's top three mobile operators.

Source: Economic Times September 25, 2016 12:39 UTC