NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea has joined Bharti Airtel in refuting competitor Reliance Jio's allegations that channel partners of the two rivals were inciting and provoking agitators involved Jio tower disruptions and promoting port-outs from the telco in Punjab and Haryana.
"We have seen a history of Jio going to any length to make baseless allegations, adopt bullying tactics and use intimidatory behaviour to suit their purposes and meet their goals. This is another such instance," the telco said in the letter.
The Sunil Mittal-led telco said that Jio's complaint should be dismissed "with the contempt that it deserves". "We also wish to emphatically state that not a single part of any supporting annexure to the complaint by Jio demonstrates any evidence that Airtel has any hand in the ongoing issues that Jio is facing."
Jio had said the target of the campaign was to disrupt its services and leverage these disruptions to promote mobile number portability to other networks.
Airtel said Jio's complaint against the company was "in poor taste".
The Sunil Mittal-led telco urged the DoT to bring forth a policy to mandate ICR (Intra circle roaming) in such situations of vandalism and network outages as a matter of course so that customers were never inconvenienced.
The Sunil Mittal-led telco said that Jio's complaint should be dismissed "with the contempt that it deserves". "We also wish to emphatically state that not a single part of any supporting annexure to the complaint by Jio demonstrates any evidence that Airtel has any hand in the ongoing issues that Jio is facing."
Jio had said the target of the campaign was to disrupt its services and leverage these disruptions to promote mobile number portability to other networks.
Airtel said Jio's complaint against the company was "in poor taste".
The Sunil Mittal-led telco urged the DoT to bring forth a policy to mandate ICR (Intra circle roaming) in such situations of vandalism and network outages as a matter of course so that customers were never inconvenienced.
Vodafone Idea further said it strongly condemns acts of vandalism against telecom infrastructure disrupting essential services.
On Saturday, ETTelecom reported that Bharti Airtel slammed Reliance Jio's allegations in its letter to the DoT secretary Anshu Prakash.
"The baseless allegation made by Jio that Airtel is behind the farmer agitation to sabotage their network and to force customers to switch to Airtel is simply outrageous," Airtel's chief regulatory officer, Rahul Vatts, said in letter.
"We have seen a history of Jio going to any length to make baseless allegations, adopt bullying tactics and use intimidatory behaviour to suit their purposes and meet their goals. This is another such instance," the telco said in the letter.
The Sunil Mittal-led telco said that Jio's complaint should be dismissed "with the contempt that it deserves". "We also wish to emphatically state that not a single part of any supporting annexure to the complaint by Jio demonstrates any evidence that Airtel has any hand in the ongoing issues that Jio is facing."
Jio had said the target of the campaign was to disrupt its services and leverage these disruptions to promote mobile number portability to other networks.
Airtel said Jio's complaint against the company was "in poor taste".
The Sunil Mittal-led telco urged the DoT to bring forth a policy to mandate ICR (Intra circle roaming) in such situations of vandalism and network outages as a matter of course so that customers were never inconvenienced.
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