MUMBAI: Aircel and Reliance Communications have accused greater rivals Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India of looking to poach subscribers through misleading campaigns that claimed the smaller telcos were shutting down their total and endeavor voice companies, respectively.
Both Aircel and RCom, struggling to stay afloat after attempts at merging their companies fell through recently, have complained to the telecom division (DoT) and the regulator, looking for action towards the three carrier suppliers.
RCom and its unit GCX, which runs the endeavor trade, mentioned Friday it has also served a 'Cease & Desist' realize on some rivals for running campaigns that say the Reliance Enterprise voice services might be discontinued. RCom did not identify the rivals, however a company source , asking not to be named, mentioned notices were issued towards the three greater telcos.
RCom is shutting its retail wi-fi trade via the top of this month. Aircel, which has recently defaulted on reimbursement of loans price over Rs17,000 crore, is widely anticipated to shrink its operations to Eight-9 more potent circles from 17 now, and in the end look to promote out to a bigger telco.
"As regard to the complaint raised by Aircel, the... concerned have been advised to immediately stop discriminatory marketing practices, if any, and to submit the explanation on the matter," the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) mentioned in a letter to Aircel. A duplicate of the Nov. 15 letter was observed via ET.
In its complaints to Trai and the DoT, Aircel, with some 89 million subscribers, had complained that Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone were violating laws through false propaganda, telling subscribers that the telco will shut store via November/December finish and wooing them with attractive tariff gives.
Aircel informed Trai that the massive telecom carrier suppliers were 'resorting to unlawful soliciting which is anti-competitive, unethical and violates the regulatory framework', and has led to them 'irreparable damage'.
An organization spokesperson at India's No. 1 telco mentioned: "Airtel adheres to the highest standards of regulatory compliance and respects all its fellow operators." Vodafone did not remark without delay, however invited users to enroll in its community.
Idea Cellular and Aircel did not reply to ET's queries.
A senior govt with one of the vital best telcos that has received the Trai realize mentioned the leading players don't have any function in such campaigns.
"The operator has no hand in this and dealers do this kind of rumor-mongering. This has been going on for the last 5 months and we have sent the regulator evidence that there are on ground activities that proclaim we are shutting shop as well," the legitimate mentioned.
RCom-GCX on its part mentioned the decision to near its client wi-fi trade doesn't have an effect on its endeavor operations.
"The developments in our Consumer Wireless Business space will have no impact on any services provided by our India Enterprise and Global Cloud Xchange businesses," RCOM-GCX mentioned, including that the company will proceed to put money into its endeavor trade, and increase its knowledge centers and community infrastructure operations.
Soon after it was published that Rcom will shut its wi-fi trade via November finish, incumbents had introduced a slew of media ads that presented attractive tariffs to the stricken telco's subscribers wishing to port out.
Both Aircel and RCom, struggling to stay afloat after attempts at merging their companies fell through recently, have complained to the telecom division (DoT) and the regulator, looking for action towards the three carrier suppliers.
RCom and its unit GCX, which runs the endeavor trade, mentioned Friday it has also served a 'Cease & Desist' realize on some rivals for running campaigns that say the Reliance Enterprise voice services might be discontinued. RCom did not identify the rivals, however a company source , asking not to be named, mentioned notices were issued towards the three greater telcos.
RCom is shutting its retail wi-fi trade via the top of this month. Aircel, which has recently defaulted on reimbursement of loans price over Rs17,000 crore, is widely anticipated to shrink its operations to Eight-9 more potent circles from 17 now, and in the end look to promote out to a bigger telco.
"As regard to the complaint raised by Aircel, the... concerned have been advised to immediately stop discriminatory marketing practices, if any, and to submit the explanation on the matter," the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) mentioned in a letter to Aircel. A duplicate of the Nov. 15 letter was observed via ET.
In its complaints to Trai and the DoT, Aircel, with some 89 million subscribers, had complained that Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone were violating laws through false propaganda, telling subscribers that the telco will shut store via November/December finish and wooing them with attractive tariff gives.
Aircel informed Trai that the massive telecom carrier suppliers were 'resorting to unlawful soliciting which is anti-competitive, unethical and violates the regulatory framework', and has led to them 'irreparable damage'.
An organization spokesperson at India's No. 1 telco mentioned: "Airtel adheres to the highest standards of regulatory compliance and respects all its fellow operators." Vodafone did not remark without delay, however invited users to enroll in its community.
Idea Cellular and Aircel did not reply to ET's queries.
A senior govt with one of the vital best telcos that has received the Trai realize mentioned the leading players don't have any function in such campaigns.
"The operator has no hand in this and dealers do this kind of rumor-mongering. This has been going on for the last 5 months and we have sent the regulator evidence that there are on ground activities that proclaim we are shutting shop as well," the legitimate mentioned.
RCom-GCX on its part mentioned the decision to near its client wi-fi trade doesn't have an effect on its endeavor operations.
"The developments in our Consumer Wireless Business space will have no impact on any services provided by our India Enterprise and Global Cloud Xchange businesses," RCOM-GCX mentioned, including that the company will proceed to put money into its endeavor trade, and increase its knowledge centers and community infrastructure operations.
Soon after it was published that Rcom will shut its wi-fi trade via November finish, incumbents had introduced a slew of media ads that presented attractive tariffs to the stricken telco's subscribers wishing to port out.
RCom, Aircel accuse Big 3 telcos of trying to poach subscribers through misleading campaigns
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