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Reliance Jio PoI issue

In early August, Jio wrote letters to letters to Telecom Secretary JS Deepak and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Chairman RS Sharma saying that incumbent telcos were deliberately not providing it adequate points of interconnection (PoIs), to terminate its calls/data, thereby forcing it to delay its commercial launch.



The company asked the government and COAI to ensure that existing players comply with licensing agreements and augment PoIs with Jio. Bharti Airtel on September13, agreed to provide additional interconnect points to Reliance Jio, saying the ports will be sufficient to support 15 million customers of the new operator. Vodafone on September 15 agreed to increase PoIs with Reliance Jio saying that it will increase the PoIs to Jio to three times in comparison to what it was providing earlier. BSNL also said it had provided "sufficient points of interconnect" to Reliance Jio and can augment it more based on requirement.