Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm on wednesday slammed the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which represents GSM telecom operators, for sabotaging its entry in the telecom market. The 4G entrant, in letters to telecom secretary JS Deepak and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman RS Sharma, said that the GSM industry body was trying to malign its name.

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Jio also said that COAI’s allegations and claims are “malicious, unfounded, ill-informed and frivolous” and have been made with “ulterior motive” of promoting vested interests of incumbent operators. The GSM lobby body had on Monday accused Jio of bypassing regulations by offering full-fledged services under the guise of test connections. The body had written to the telecom department to immediately ask Reliance Jio to stop all connections provided to 1.5 million users.

COAI had also alleged that the volume of voice traffic generated by Jio due to the free services was choking points of interconnect and in turn impairing service quality of other operators. Jio said it had duly informed the need and process of test trials to the DoT and Trai from time to time. It added that the test trials were in accordance with the terms of licence. Jio said that it needs to test the network at the fullest possible load, which is why it was seeking an augmented capacity from incumbent telecom operators. It said that such tests are required since it is Introducing a completely end to end IP-based network.

“COAI has deliberately indulged in an unwarranted vilification campaign, not only against Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, but also against Trai, without any basis whatsoever,” Jio said in its letters.