Bharti Airtel proposes to augment the interconnection capacity

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (“RJIL”) in its press release has welcomed the decision of Bharti Airtel Limited (“Airtel”) of providing more points of interconnection to it, as indicated in Airtel’s press statement issued on September 13.

RJIL has been writing regularly to Airtel and other incumbent operators regarding its requirement for interconnection capacity over the last few months. According to RJIL the situation has deteriorated significantly in the last few weeks, with over 75 calls failing out of every 100 call attempts. In last 10 days alone, over 22 crore calls have failed on the Airtel network, while 52 crore calls have failed cumulatively on the networks of the three incumbent operators viz. Airtel, Vodafone India Ltd., and Idea Cellular Ltd.

RJIL has been raising the issue of insufficient POIs as anti-competitive aimed at hindering the entry of a new operator.

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (“Jio”), is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (“RIL”), which has built a world-class all-IP data strong future proof network with latest 4G LTE technology. As part of its customer offers, Jio has revolutionised the Indian telecom landscape by making voice calls for Jio customers absolutely free, across India, to any network.

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