Reliance Jio says rivals made Rs1.2 trillion from interconnection user charges in 5 years

New Delhi: Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd has claimed that India’s top three telecom firms have generated as much as Rs1.04 trillion in revenue in the past five years on account of non-implementation of a 2011 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) road map to cut interconnection user charges (IUC) to zero.

Reliance Jio was referring to the 2011 report on IUC by Trai that was filed as an affidavit in the Supreme Court. In the affidavit, Trai told the court that it wanted to bring down IUC to zero from March 2015. This road map was also part of 2009 Trai regulation on IUC that excluded capital cost while calculating the charge.

 

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