Won't change Rs 3,050 crore fine imposed, says Trai
Last month telecom department had asked Trai to reconsidered its recommendation to impose heavy penalty on the incumbent telecom service providers.
New Delhi: In a set-back to old telecom players, Trai has struck to its recommendation of imposing Rs 3,050 crore penalty on Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular for their alleged failure to provide adequate points of interconnect (PoIs) to newcomer Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio.
Last month telecom department had asked Trai to reconsidered its recommendation to impose heavy penalty on the incumbent telecom service providers over the issue of PoIs to Jio.
Trai in its reply on Wednesday, said the three incumbent operators “intentionally denied and delayed” provision of points of interconnect to Jio “only to restrict a new entrant... causing a lot of inconvenience to consumers”.
Trai said that the DoT may appreciate the fact that the operators were intentionally “denying and delaying the provision/augmentation of point of interconnection to Jio, only to restrict a new entrant.” This, it said was violation of the terms and conditions of license “which also caused a lot of inconvenience to consumers.” i