Point Of Interconnect

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  TRAI Releases Draft of Telecom Interconnection Regulation

  The draft said a service provider may request the other service provider for additional ports at a Point of Interconnection (POI).

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  Government to Look Into TRAI's Proposal to Penalise Airtel, Idea, Vodafone: Sinha

  "Let the proposal come, we will look into it. We will decide in proper time," Communications Minister Manoj Sinha said on the sidelines of a press meet.

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  Reliance Jio Battle: Airtel Urges DoT to Reject TRAI Fine on 3 Telcos

  An Airtel spokesperson said that the company disagreed with TRAI's recommendation and requested the Department of Telecom (DoT) to reject it.

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  Reliance Jio Penalty Case: TRAI to Reply to DoT This Month

  The Telecom Department, on April 5, wrote to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) asking it to give a "reconsidered opinion" on the penalty issue.

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  Reliance Jio vs Airtel: Will Continue to Monitor Points of Interconnect Issue, Says TRAI

  Amid Reliance Jio-Airtel points of interconnect issue, TRAI said this is a consumer issue and that it will continue to monitor it.

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  Reliance Jio Unable to Use Provided Points of Interconnect, Airtel Says

  Jio has vehemently refuted Airtel's claim that the latter provided adequate interconnect points to the former, which it has been unable to utilise.

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  Telecom Commission Seeks Clarification on Rs. 3,050-Crore PoI Penalty

  DoT recently sought legal opinion from Attorney General (AG) on whether it had powers to impose penalty in the case.

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  Reliance Jio Point of Interconnection Congestion: Vodafone, Idea Meeting the Norms, says TRAI

  Point of Interconnection congestion, which was a bone of contention between Reliance Jio and incumbent telcos, has been eliminated by Idea and Vodafone.

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  Call Drop Rate 'Way Above Benchmark'; TRAI to Meet With Telcos Next Week

  According to the current regulations, not more than five calls out of 1,000 can fail at PoIs.

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  Airtel Says Has Provided 7,000 More Points of Interconnect to Reliance Jio

  "This capacity is sufficient to serve over 75 million customers, based on the forecast provided by Jio to Airtel."

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  Airtel Says Hopeful of 'Objective Outcome' on Reliance Jio PoI Penalty

  "We have done everything we could have humanly done... The amount of augmentation runs into thousands of points of interconnect in five weeks."

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  Reliance Jio Again Writes to Vodafone India, Idea Cellular for Sufficient Interconnection Points

  "Reliance Jio reserves the right to seek expeditious provisioning of E1s, [since] the E1s to be provided are not sufficient to meet the quality of services," RJio said to Idea and Vodafone in separate letters.

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  Reliance Jio Says Telcos Not Showing 'Real Intent' to Solve Interconnection Issue

  Airtel provided just one additional interconnection point this month taking the total number to 651, Reliance Jio said in a statement.

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  All Issues With Reliance Jio Will Be Resolved in a Few Weeks: Mittal

  "I am not saying look out for 6 months or 1 year. Look out for few weeks and this will get settled," Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal.

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  Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance Jio Said to Submit Call Traffic Details to Trai

  The data is said to enable Trai to examine asymmetry of traffic in the context of the IUC consultation paper that has been floated recently,