As Reliance Industries rolls out its 4G service under the RJio banner and customers queue up to grab their SIM, they will experience trouble while connecting to other networks. The ongoing war between the RJio and other telcos has now forced the Telecom Regulatory Authority to step in with a big meeting planned on Thursday.
Sources suggest RJio will demand greater interconnectivity from the incumbent operators in the meet, while the other telcos are set to press for a new revenue sharing mechanism under RJio data calls plan.
“We need a new revenue sharing framework if telcos are losing 14 paisa per minute on every data based calls then this can’t be fair to them”, said Rajan Mathews, DG, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) to India Today.
Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani while unveiling RJIO had asked other telcos to cooperate as they target 100 million customers. But COAI, which is leading the fight of the other telcos, has written two letters to the Prime Minister’s office. In the letter, COAI has claimed that other telcos are overburdened with RJio’S customer flow and they are not obliged to provide interconnectivity.
Interestingly, sources also suggest that as the face-off intensifies between RJio and the rest of the telecom sector, the TRAI battle could end up in legal courts.
[Source:-INDIA TODAY]
