Nowadays every second person having a 4G compatible handset is surely using the Jio free services, may you are reading this news on Jio's internet but there is a bad news for everyone using Jio services like you and us as Jio is seems to be ending up its free services before March 31st as Vodafone tells High Court that Jio's "Happy New Year" Offer violates TRAI guidelines.
On Monady Vodafone moved to Delhi High Court alleging that TRAI had failed to prohitbit badly viaolation of tariff orders and regulations by Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIO) by allowing them to continue their free offers.
Matter was came under Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva to be heard on 1st February, 2017.
Vodafone claimed that TRAI has also failed to implement Department of Telecommunications(DoT) circulars which lay down that all tariffs must be compliant of inter-connection usage charges (IUC), non-discriminatory and non-predatory.
"That the free i.e. zero tariff plan/promotional offer of said Operator (Jio) with no charges at all for services, is ipso facto non-compliant with the 'floor' as stipulated by TRAI in its own tariff orders, is IUC non-compliant, predatory and discriminatory and thus violates the TRAIs tariff orders and regulations.
"It is submitted that the said promotional offer was and continues to be in blatant violation of cardinal regulatory principles as IUC charges being the floor for the retail tariffs," the telecom major has said in its petition.
Vodafone has contended in its plea that TRAI itself in 2002 had told all telecom service providers that "promotional tariffs cannot exceed 90 days upper limit".
"The free offerings were illegal and also violates the 90 days upper limit fixed for any promotional offer (with) 90 days expiring on September 18, 2016 (even if counted from June 21, 2016) and in any event on December 3, 2016. The respondent (TRAI) ignored petitioner's representations and effectively deal with the same.
"The subsequent promotion offer proposed to be ending on March 31, 2017 is also violative of, inter alia, the said principle of 'floor', as also the said 90 days upper limit, ... and the respondent has not taken any steps to stop the blatant violation by the said Operator and continues to act in a non-transparent manner," the petition has alleged.
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