Jio requests Vodafone, Idea to Release More PoI
Reliance Jio has again requested its rivals Vodafone and Idea Cellular to allow interconnection ports while blaming that its poor quality of service on its network is because of incumbent players’ unlawful and illegal delay in supplying more connections.
As per the directions by the TRAI, which it issued to the telecom operators on October 7 in order to resolve the service quality issue, the firm in separate letters to Vodafone and Idea mentioned that in deference to TRAI’s directions, RJIL hence demands immediate release of the shortfall in E1s.
TRAI has given a deadline of October 17, 2016 to mobile carriers to fix the matter so that customers do not experience poor quality of service. It has also observed a high level of congestion in telecom networks which further to call failure on Reliance Jio’s network.
Jio has been blaming that Airtel, Vodafone and Idea are denying the required number of interconnection points. Nonetheless, the incumbents have said that they have given sufficient points of interconnection (PoIs) to meet requirement of Jio as per industry average.
In the letter dated October 12, referred to the telecom secretary and the TRAI chairman, Jio claimed average call drop faced by its customer as on October 8 was as high as 87 per cent on Vodafone and 67 per cent on Idea network for NLD service.
The company has sought interconnection facility for supporting 100 million mobile subscribers by March 2017.
As per the list sent by Jio, Vodafone has to assign 7614 and 1844 more PoIs for access and national long distance services whereas Idea is to provide 6060 and 1230 additional PoIs for access and national long distance services, respectively.
Jio said that it provided schedule of estimated subscriber growth on its network from June 21 along with required number of PoIs. Jio said that it never adhered to the schedule for providing E1s (interconnection ports) under one pretext or the other and this continues as at date. The details of shortfalls in E1s are due and yet to be provided for up to 100 million subscribers.
Jio has shown that subscriber base on its network is calculated to touch 50 million by September 2016, 75 million by end of 2016 and 100 million by March 2017.
The letter read that any non-compliance with QoS (quality of service) requirements on the traffic originating from RJIL’s network is merely owing to their unlawful and illegal delay/ denial to adequately augment the PoIs.
No immediate comments could be received from Vodafone and Idea Cellular.