Bharti Airtel Subscribers Will Not Have to Pay Any IUC Charge, Telco Takes a Jab at Reliance Jio

Reliance Jio and the other telcos have been locking horns over the issue of Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) since the past few months. Things took a drastic turn over the feud when the Mukesh Ambani led telecom operator went ahead and cut down its outgoing ringing time by a full 20 seconds. This sparked a controversy between the telecom operators and the spat has since been growing. However, Reliance Jio pulled another major move in this regard as it introduced a 6 paise per minute charge applicable on its subscribers for all the outgoing calls to other networks. But, at the same time, other telecom operators have been issuing clarifications to their subscribers that they are not the ones who are going to charging anything for outgoing calls. On Thursday, it was Vodafone Idea who issued a clarification, and now it is Bharti Airtel. The Sunil Bharti Mittal led telecom operator has put out a tweet in this issue.

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Bharti Airtel Takes a Jab at Reliance Jio

The new tweet that we are talking about comes from Bharti Airtel’s official twitter account, and it says “For some, unlimited means something else. For us, unlimited voice calls have always meant truly unlimited voice calls. Switch to Airtel now.” The tweet is also accompanied by a video which denotes “free is not equal to 6 paise per minute.” It is worth noting that with this tweet, Bharti Airtel is clearly solving two purposes. Firstly, with this, Bharti Airtel has clarified its customers that it is not going to charge anything on its outgoing calls, similar to how Reliance Jio is doing for its customers. Secondly, Airtel is grabbing this opportunity to lure subscribers to its network and is rolling out this campaign to have the edge over the rival telecom operator which has started charging this amount even from the subscribers who have unlimited recharges.