RIL orders employees to switch to Reliance Jio from other mobile operators
Airtel will stand to lose about 1.25 to 1.50 lakh subscribers because of this.
The dispute between Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) stands to escalate with Reliance Jio now ordering its 40,000-strong workforce to switch to the Jio network from other telecom companies.
Reliance Jio hitting back by saying the claims were "malicious, unfounded, ill-informed and frivolous" and have been made with "ulterior motive" of promoting vested interests of incumbent operators.This resulted in the Department of Telecom (DoT) asking the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to seek compliance from telecom operators on the scale and duration of testing, network inter-connection, and matters pertaining to subscriber addition.
Trai is believed to have told the Department of Telecom (DoT) that it does not have any ground to seek compliance from operators, including Reliance Jio, during testing of networks under current rules.
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