One major premise in its reasoning is that the cost of delivering voice services is next to nothing when IP-based technologies are deployed. Does it really charge nothing or next to nothing for its voice services? But customers need to pay a minimum amount for data services to be able to access Reliance Jio’s voice services in the first place; so is voice really free? As things stand, at the minimum, Reliance Jio’s services cost around Rs150 per month. Surely, Trai’s argument can’t be that this category can pay effectively nothing for voice services by spending Rs150-300 per month on data services.

Source: Mint September 27, 2017 22:07 UTC