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Business EconomyPosted at: Sep 28 2016 9:21PM


Reliance threatens to sue COAI for surreptitious, defamatory statement

New Delhi, Sep 28 (UNI) Fighting with its rival operators for interconnectivity, Reliance Jio has now attacked the Cellular Operator Association of India (COAI) for making surreptitious and defamatory statements.
The Company has threatened COAI to sue, if it does not apologise and takes action against its Director General.
In a hard-hitting statement, Reliance Jio has alleged that the statement issued by COAI’s Director General Rajan S Mathews is an act of contempt of the orders of the Supreme Court and devoid of any merit.
COAI Director General Rajan S Mathews in the press statement had said that Reliance Jio entered the sector as a “Back Door Operator” in the telecom sector.
According to Reliance, the statement was defamatory and bordered on contempt of the orders of the Supreme Court. Jio has already put Mr Mathews on notice, demanding apology for issuing the press statement, with copy to COAI seeking appropriate action against him, and should they not act upon it, Jio will pursue legal recourse with full vigour.
Disturbed with the failure of calls on other operator networks in a large number, Reliance Jio has said that contrary to Mr Mathews' claim that these are bilateral issues and should have been addressed within the association, he himself has raised several bilateral issues in external forums in the last few months, without ever discussing these within the association.
“Further, all the forums within the association are controlled by the incumbent dominant operators owing to their disproportionate voting rights. It is also a known fact that Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications have left COAI in the past because of such biases.” Jio alleged.
According to Jio, Reliance in its letter of September 23, 2016, had suggested overhaul of COAI’s regulations by a committee comprising of three retired Judges of the Supreme Court.
These regulations as exist today, admittedly are skewed in favour of incumbent operators, giving them de facto and de jure control over COAI to promote their vested interests. Jio had in its letter quoted specific instances of flagrant misuse of COAI by the incumbent operators with the active connivance of Mr Mathews, its Director General.
The statement of Mr Mathews skirts away from discussing the genuine need to deliberate RJIL’s concerns and fair need to overhaul COAI’s regulations, it said.
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