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Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks
In the latest turn of events, the three big telecom players have been caught in a fix involving the tribunal as Idea Cellular and Bharti Airtel filed a case for the alleged favouring of Jio in pricing matters by the authoritative body Trai. The lawyer who was aware of the ongoing and represented one of the telcos informed the public that the next hearing would take place on April 17 and will be concerned with Idea’s and Airtel’s reply to Jio’s impleading application after the TDSAT (Telecom Disputes and Settlement Appellate Tribunal) issued notices to them.
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The incumbent parties put forth their case saying that the predatory pricing move which the Trai brought into action on February 16 extensively favour Jio Infocomm and their strategies. This news was reported by Economic Times.
An anonymous lawyer tipped off by saying “Reliance Jio and telecom watchdog had filed separate applications to be impleaded as parties in the appeals,” and further added telling about the proceeding “Telecom watchdog’s petition was disposed of since Trai was already representing consumer interest in any case.” There has been no response from Jio in the related matter.
Trai, only in the last month brought a lot of significant changes in the rules related to the significant market players, going as far as changing the definition of the SMP and also defined new rules which granted tariff flexibility to market players who had less than 30% of market share (revenue or subscribers). Previously used parameters like data, the volume of traffic etc. were dropped. Also, a penalty of Rs 50 Lakh per violation was decided upon by the authority.
