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Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said it had released a total of 35,000 points of interconnect to Reliance Jio Infocomm in a matter of five months, while it had released about 40,500 PoIs to Vodafone over 21 years. Thus, the company said that Jio’s complaint that Airtel wasn’t providing sufficient PoIs was incorrect.
The company went on to say that the problems faced by Jio were in fact owing to the technical glitches on its own network rather than owing to lack of sufficient PoIs provided by Airtel.
“It, therefore, appears that the constant rhetoric by Jio with regard to PoIs is aimed at covering up technical issues in their own network or their inability to activate the PoIs given,” Airtel has said.
On the contrary Airtel added that since Jio was offering free services for the past 5-6 months, “there is a tsunami of incoming voice traffic on the Airtel network, thereby, impacting the service experience of our customers”.
Airtel reiterated its complaint that the asymmetry in traffic due to Jio’s free offers had also resulted complete failure of the present interconnect user charge (IUC) regime. Airtel has repeatedly said that the current IUC regime assumes nearly symmetric traffic while fixing the below cost termination charge.
According to the company, the current termination charge of 14 paise was less than half of the actual cost of terminating calls on the network, resulting in huge loss to the company.
The company gave a comparison of the number of PoIs it had released to other operators in order to show that it had done its bit in Jio’s case.
“Vodafone with 202 million customers has been provided a total of approx. 40,600 PoIs over a period of 21 years. Idea with 185 million customers has been provided a total of approx. 38,130 PoIs over a period of 21 years,” Airtel said.
Moreover, Bharti said the capacity to Jio had been released at a staggering pace, something not seen before in the Indian telecom industry and was much more than comparable capacity provided by Airtel to other operators.
reliance jio call failures due to own technical issues, says airtel, Telecom News, ET Telecom
The company went on to say that the problems faced by Jio were in fact owing to the technical glitches on its own network rather than owing to lack of sufficient PoIs provided by Airtel.
“It, therefore, appears that the constant rhetoric by Jio with regard to PoIs is aimed at covering up technical issues in their own network or their inability to activate the PoIs given,” Airtel has said.
On the contrary Airtel added that since Jio was offering free services for the past 5-6 months, “there is a tsunami of incoming voice traffic on the Airtel network, thereby, impacting the service experience of our customers”.
Airtel reiterated its complaint that the asymmetry in traffic due to Jio’s free offers had also resulted complete failure of the present interconnect user charge (IUC) regime. Airtel has repeatedly said that the current IUC regime assumes nearly symmetric traffic while fixing the below cost termination charge.
According to the company, the current termination charge of 14 paise was less than half of the actual cost of terminating calls on the network, resulting in huge loss to the company.
The company gave a comparison of the number of PoIs it had released to other operators in order to show that it had done its bit in Jio’s case.
“Vodafone with 202 million customers has been provided a total of approx. 40,600 PoIs over a period of 21 years. Idea with 185 million customers has been provided a total of approx. 38,130 PoIs over a period of 21 years,” Airtel said.
Moreover, Bharti said the capacity to Jio had been released at a staggering pace, something not seen before in the Indian telecom industry and was much more than comparable capacity provided by Airtel to other operators.
reliance jio call failures due to own technical issues, says airtel, Telecom News, ET Telecom
