The bench, thereafter, issued notice to TRAI and DoT and asked them to file affidavits on the issue of maintainability of Idea’s plea before the next date of hearing on February 21.
Idea, in its plea, has claimed that it has complied with and met the requirements of RJIO for points of interconnections (PoIs).
It has said that as of January 19 this year, it has allocated 19,175 PoIs to RJIO and contended that congestion and call failures were a consequence of RJIO’s “gross underestimation” of the volume, traffic and duration of calls on its network due to its free voice calls and data offer.
In its plea, Idea has also contended that there is inconsistency between TRAI’s Interconnection Regulations and Quality of Service Regulations.
