Both Reliance Industries and Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal have rejected the GSM lobby’s allegations that the government is unduly favouring the Mukesh Ambani-promoted company by allowing Reliance Jio Infocomm to offer voice services using 4G spectrum.
In a strongly worded letter to the Department of Telecom, RIL-backed Reliance Jio has countered that the COAI is making the wild allegations as the incumbent GSM biggies don’t want to lose their “monopoly” over the mobile voice market.
Meanwhile, Sibal has told the Economic Times that the decision to allow voice services on 4G band was based on the suggestions made by Trai and Telecom Commission.
“The regulator said that everyone should be allowed to migrate to a Unified Licence and then offer voice,” Sibal has been quoted as saying in the ET report.
He has also said that any decision that “increases competition and reduces tariff was good for consumers”.
The telecom commission had recently said that firms with the broadband wireless access (BWA) airwaves can provide voice services along with high-speed Internet by paying an additional Rs 1,658 crore.
In the letter to the DoT yesterday evening, Reliance Jio Infocomm has used part sarcasm, part logic and part bravado to point out that the incumbents’ objections on DoT allowing Reliance to offer voice services on its BWA spectrum are frivolous, motivated, misleading and anti consumer.
In a strongly worded letter to the Department of Telecom, RIL-backed Reliance Jio has countered that the COAI is making the wild allegations as the incumbent GSM biggies don’t want to lose their “monopoly” over the mobile voice market.
Meanwhile, Sibal has told the Economic Times that the decision to allow voice services on 4G band was based on the suggestions made by Trai and Telecom Commission.
“The regulator said that everyone should be allowed to migrate to a Unified Licence and then offer voice,” Sibal has been quoted as saying in the ET report.
He has also said that any decision that “increases competition and reduces tariff was good for consumers”.
The telecom commission had recently said that firms with the broadband wireless access (BWA) airwaves can provide voice services along with high-speed Internet by paying an additional Rs 1,658 crore.
In the letter to the DoT yesterday evening, Reliance Jio Infocomm has used part sarcasm, part logic and part bravado to point out that the incumbents’ objections on DoT allowing Reliance to offer voice services on its BWA spectrum are frivolous, motivated, misleading and anti consumer.
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