The spat between Reliance Jio and the industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has heightened to the next level with Rajan S. Mathews, the director general of COAI said it’s waiting for an “umpire” to step in to resolve the issue, reports Financial Express.

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“It’s time an umpire steps in and says it is an LBW or not,” Rajan S. Mathews, director general of COAI. “The balance of trade is not in our favor”, he said. According to Mathews, the association would wait for clarity on parameters such as time period, subscribers, and usage for test services by new operators from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to take further steps ahead.

Few days prior, COAI pointed out to DoT that Reliance Jio is offering full-fledged services under the guise of “test” connections. The body blamed Jio for surpassing the regulation.

Subsequently, Mukesh Ambani, the head of Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) accused COAI of sabotaging its entry into the market as well as for maligning its name. He pointed out in a letter to the Telecom Secretary J. S. Deepak and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman R. S. Sharma that the other telecom operators were not providing it adequate access points, or points of interconnection (PoIs), to terminate its calls/data, which result in delaying its commercial launch.

According to COAI, Jio’s already augmented PoIs was getting blocked due to the volume of voice traffic generated by the free offers of Jio.