Idea moves Bombay HC against IUC order

The telecom companies pay each other the IUC for using each other's networks to complete calls

Aditya Birla Group’s Idea Cellular moved the Bombay High Court on Thursday against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai’s) move to reduce the inter-connect usage charge from 14 paise a minute to 6 paise a minute.

According to Idea, the Trai move would help only one operator (Reliance Jio) while hurting the financials of all the incumbent companies. A similar move by Bharti Airtel is also expected. 

Just before the Trai's move, Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the Aditya Birla group, had written two letters to the Trai providing details on how reducing the IUC will not reduce tariff and, on