
Idea has proactively expanded Reliance Jio's Point of Interconnect (PoI) capacity to handle over 6.5 million subscribers.
With the release of 196 additional PoIs, shortly, the additional capacity will provide for a buffer of 119 per cent against the August subscriber volumes.
In the month of August 2016 there were a total of 2.97 million unique Jio subscribers who terminated calls on the Idea network. Our current allocation of PoIs would in normal circumstances cater to 4.65 million subscribers indicating a buffer of 57 per cent in calling capacity.
"Idea Cellular has in the past been providing and augmenting Points of Interconnect (PoIs) very liberally and we will continue to support all new operators for all their reasonable, fair and legitimate requirements of PoIs," as per the statement released by Idea Cellular.
Idea Cellular, a leading Indian telecom service provider welcomes Jio, and remains committed to facilitate its seamless entry into the hyper-competitive market.
Idea has informed TRAI that in August 2016, there existed an unprecedented asymmetry of traffic of 14.5 times between Idea and Jio and never ever has such a high asymmetry been observed with a new operator in the past.
Idea has already submitted to the TRAI, via the "Accounting Separation Report" for FY16, that its real cost of termination is significantly higher than the current interconnect settlement charge of 14 paise per minute as prescribed in the present IUC regime. The company is incurring increasing costs due to this high level of traffic asymmetry.
Unless controlled, this induced traffic asymmetry is expected to exacerbate the loss in the coming months. We await regulatory intervention to address this fundamental issue of induced asymmetry of traffic and ensure compliance to the existing regulatory principles of IUC compliance, non-discrimination, and non-predation, as per TRAI’s 30th Amendment to Telecommunication Tariff Order dated 16th January 2004.
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