Reliance Jio and incumbent operators Airtel, Vodafone and Idea are at loggerheads over ‘points of interconnect’ to facilitate voice calls among their networks. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/MintNew Delhi: India’s telecom regulator has called for a meeting on 30 September to discuss alleged violations of tariff norms by Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (R-Jio) as the fight between incumbent telcos and the aggressive new entrant moves to another stage. The kind of allegations put (forth) by Jio are true as the data suggests that incumbents are competing unfairly,” this person added. Also Read: Reliance Jio call drops due to its under-preparedness: AirtelIn its letter, Bharti Airtel continued to complain about the asymmetric traffic between the two networks and the financial burden caused by it. In a Tuesday statement, Reliance claimed that there are still 16 million calls from its network to Bharti’s that fail everyday.

Source: Mint September 27, 2016 14:07 UTC