NEW DELHI: Telecom operator Reliance Jio has alleged that business friends Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL) are operating “vicious and divisive marketing campaign” towards it and making preposterous claims that migrating Jio cell numbers to their networks can be an act of help to farmers’ protests.
The nation’s greatest telecom operator in a letter to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has sought strict motion towards the 2 corporations and mentioned that such acts of the rival corporations can jeopardise security and safety of Jio’s staff.
In response to Jio’s claims, each Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Thought have termed the criticism as “baseless” and refuted the costs.
Reliance Jio additional mentioned that earlier additionally it had written to Trai about “unethical and anti-competitive cell quantity portability marketing campaign” by Airtel and VIL to capitalise on farmer protests.
“We submit that Airtel and VIL stay unabated in pursuing this vicious and divisive marketing campaign by means of its staff, brokers and retailers. They’re inciting the general public by making preposterous claims that migrating Jio cell subscribers to their networks can be an act of help to farmers’ protests,” Jio mentioned in its newest letter.
Hundreds of farmers, principally from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, are protesting at numerous border factors of Delhi towards the brand new farm legal guidelines enacted within the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
Bharti Airtel in a letter to Trai mentioned, “We want to emphatically deny this baseless cost…Regardless of being provoked by some opponents who we all know will go to any size to make baseless allegations, undertake bullying ways and use intimidatory behaviour. We’ve got at all times performed our enterprise with character and transparency one thing that we’re deeply happy with and recognized for.”
Vodafone Thought spokesperson mentioned the corporate believes in doing enterprise with ethics.
“These are baseless allegations towards us to malign our fame. We strongly refute such irresponsible feedback on us,” VIL spokesperson mentioned.
Reliance Jio alleged that the marketing campaign isn’t restricted to northern states and the false propaganda is being unfold throughout the nation to amass clients by means of MNP. Jio mentioned that it has been receiving a lot of port-out requests the place clients are citing marketing campaign messages of Airtel and VIL for porting out their cell numbers.
The corporate mentioned the follow of Airtel and VIL is in violation of necessities below telecom tariff order of 1999.
“We additionally reiterate that such unlawful actions with blatant use of gross sales groups and channel companions to instigate emotions towards RJIL can severely jeopardise security and safety of our personnel in addition to important community and enterprise set up of the bottom,” Jio mentioned.
Bharti Airtel had pipped Reliance Jio in new cell subscriber addition in September after a niche of 4 years.
Reliance Jio had maintained management place in month-to-month cell subscriber addition because the launch of its industrial operations in September 2016. It had added 15.97 million new clients when it commenced industrial operations.
Bharti Airtel led cell subscriber development in September 2020 with a internet addition of three.77 million new clients. It was adopted by Reliance Jio with internet addition of 1.46 million and BSNL with 78,454 new clients.
The nation’s greatest telecom operator in a letter to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has sought strict motion towards the 2 corporations and mentioned that such acts of the rival corporations can jeopardise security and safety of Jio’s staff.
In response to Jio’s claims, each Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Thought have termed the criticism as “baseless” and refuted the costs.
Reliance Jio additional mentioned that earlier additionally it had written to Trai about “unethical and anti-competitive cell quantity portability marketing campaign” by Airtel and VIL to capitalise on farmer protests.
“We submit that Airtel and VIL stay unabated in pursuing this vicious and divisive marketing campaign by means of its staff, brokers and retailers. They’re inciting the general public by making preposterous claims that migrating Jio cell subscribers to their networks can be an act of help to farmers’ protests,” Jio mentioned in its newest letter.
Hundreds of farmers, principally from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, are protesting at numerous border factors of Delhi towards the brand new farm legal guidelines enacted within the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
Bharti Airtel in a letter to Trai mentioned, “We want to emphatically deny this baseless cost…Regardless of being provoked by some opponents who we all know will go to any size to make baseless allegations, undertake bullying ways and use intimidatory behaviour. We’ve got at all times performed our enterprise with character and transparency one thing that we’re deeply happy with and recognized for.”
Vodafone Thought spokesperson mentioned the corporate believes in doing enterprise with ethics.
“These are baseless allegations towards us to malign our fame. We strongly refute such irresponsible feedback on us,” VIL spokesperson mentioned.
Reliance Jio alleged that the marketing campaign isn’t restricted to northern states and the false propaganda is being unfold throughout the nation to amass clients by means of MNP. Jio mentioned that it has been receiving a lot of port-out requests the place clients are citing marketing campaign messages of Airtel and VIL for porting out their cell numbers.
The corporate mentioned the follow of Airtel and VIL is in violation of necessities below telecom tariff order of 1999.
“We additionally reiterate that such unlawful actions with blatant use of gross sales groups and channel companions to instigate emotions towards RJIL can severely jeopardise security and safety of our personnel in addition to important community and enterprise set up of the bottom,” Jio mentioned.
Bharti Airtel had pipped Reliance Jio in new cell subscriber addition in September after a niche of 4 years.
Reliance Jio had maintained management place in month-to-month cell subscriber addition because the launch of its industrial operations in September 2016. It had added 15.97 million new clients when it commenced industrial operations.
Bharti Airtel led cell subscriber development in September 2020 with a internet addition of three.77 million new clients. It was adopted by Reliance Jio with internet addition of 1.46 million and BSNL with 78,454 new clients.