Hutchison Essar has submitted videos to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) that apparently show Tata Teleservices and Reliance Infocomm offering limited mobility services beyond the permissible limits of a local call area.
This has added another twist to the tussle between cellular and fixed line telecom service providers.
Hutchison has submitted two video compact discs, with footage taken in Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad and Sonepat between May 8 and 10.
More From This Section
The discs show Delhi-based subscribers of Tata and Reliance using limited mobility services that were in violation of licence conditions.
A Reliance spokesman said the company had not violated any norms, and if there were other issues, they would be sorted out with Trai.
A Tata spokesman said the company had submitted its response to Trai when the issue had been raised earlier.
The company contends that the spectrum spilled over to the outskirts of Delhi because the initial subscriber base was small, and the problem will be sorted out once the network begins to operate at full capacity. Trai had indicated that the explanation was satisfactory, the spokesman added.
However, in a letter accompanying the videos, Hutchison has countered Tata Teleservices, saying the spillage was taking place even though subscription had grown in certain areas.