DoT to hear Airtel, Idea, Vodafone pleas against Trai's Rs 3,050-cr penalty

Trai had in October last year recommended that a penalty of Rs 1,050 crore be imposed each on Airtel and Vodafone, and Rs 950 crore on Idea for denying points of interaction to Reliance Jio

The department of telecommunications (DoT) would soon hear the pleas filed by leading telecom service providers Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai's) recommendation of October last year that a Rs 3,050-crore cumulative penalty be imposed on them for allegedly denying sufficient points of interconnection (PoIs) to Reliance Jio Infocomm, according to a news report in Livemint.

The telecom department had asked the operators to make their presentation by December 6. However, Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular have raised a request to defer the meeting and Vodafone has not yet responded, according