COAI's letter to Trai a deliberate attempt to subvert process: Reliance Jio

Jio alleged that top 3 operators benefited by at least Rs 1 lakh cr due to BAK non-implementation

Reliance Jio has termed a COAI letter to Trai as “deliberate and willful intent to subvert” the interconnect usage charges (IUC) consultation process at the behest of incumbent operators. The industry body had written to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) stating that entities that were seeking the ‘bill and keep’ (BAK) model for interconnections between operators are “distorting facts”. 

That affidavit, it had said, listed symmetry of traffic as a pre-condition to implement a BAK regime. Jio had earlier alleged that top three operators had benefited by at least Rs 1 lakh crore due to non-implementation of BAK by