A war of words has broken out between existing telecom operators and newcomer Reliance Jio after their lobby group COAI called the latter\u2019s testing of network a bypass of regulations, with the Mukesh Ambani firm hitting back saying the charge is a bid to block its rollout.<\/p>\n
The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which has members including Bharti Airtel, Idea and Vodafone, on August 8 wrote to the DoT demanding that Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIL) or RJio immediately stop all connections provided to 1.5 million users because it had allegedly bypassed regulations by offering full-fledged services under the guise of test connections. A \u00a0RJio official alleged telecom operators of \u201cartificially and illegally\u201d blocking its network in \u201can anti-competitive manner\u201d. RJio said it is targeting to achieve over 100 million subscribers in a year and has been demanding to capacity in equipments to interconnect its services with network of other telecom operators.<\/p>\n \u201cRJIL has already extended the media to the other operators’ premises at its own cost. However, the other operators, instead of augmenting the point of interconnections (PoIs), are blocking the POI augmentation, on various unreasonable grounds,\u201d the company said in the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A war of words has broken out between existing telecom operators and newcomer Reliance Jio after their lobby group COAI called the latter\u2019s testing of network a bypass of regulations, with the Mukesh Ambani firm hitting back saying the charge is a bid to block its rollout. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[617,616,618,615,614,620,619],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-top-stories","tag-bharti-airtel","tag-coai","tag-idea","tag-jio","tag-reliance","tag-trouble","tag-vodafone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRJio on Wednesday<\/span><\/span> hit back in a 8-page letter saying COAI charges were \u201cmalicious, unfounded, ill-informed, and frivolous and are contrary to actual facts\u201d and was \u201cpromoting the vested interests of the incumbent dominant operators\u201d.<\/p>\n