{"id":143302,"date":"2019-06-18T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T07:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=247811"},"modified":"2019-06-18T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T07:01:48","slug":"indian-officials-seek-reduction-of-interconnect-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/18\/indian-officials-seek-reduction-of-interconnect-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian officials seek reduction of interconnect fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tIndia\u2019s Digital Communications Commission (DCC) called for fines levied against Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel to be slashed because tough trading conditions have taken a toll on their earnings, The Economic Times (ET) reported.<\/p>\n<p>The commission backed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India\u2019s (TRAIs) decision to penalise the operators for hindering rival Reliance Jio\u2019s access to interconnection points, made in 2016 [1], but argued the fine should be reduced from its current level of INR500 million ($7.2 million) per service area to between INR5 million and INR50 million per circle, ET said.<\/p>\n<p>TRAI&#8217;s fine is the maximum it can impose in the matter, totalling INR30.5 billion against Bharti Airtel and what is now Vodafone Idea. The penalty related to a complaint by Reliance Jio alleging the incumbents formed a cartel [2] to deny it adequate points of interconnection. It said at the time more than 75 per cent of calls on its network were failing.<\/p>\n<p>DCC, formerly the Telecom Commission, is the highest decision-making body at India&#8217;s Department of Telecommunications.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper suggested the operators are likely to take the matter to court if any penalty is imposed, regardless of any reduction.<\/p>\n<p>Bharti Airtel\u2019s net profit fell [3] 62.7 per cent year-on-year to INR4.1 billion in the year to end-March, while Vodafone Idea remained in the red [4] during its fiscal Q4 (also to end-March), albeit the figure was down sequentially.<\/p>\n<p>Annual comparisons are not yet available for the company, which was formed in August 2018 [5].<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/asia\/asia-news\/indias-top-three-operators-face-fine-over-jios-dropped-calls\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/jio-files-complaint-against-indias-top-three-report\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/asia\/asia-news\/bharti-airtel-registers-growth-in-india\/<br \/>\n[4] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/asia\/asia-news\/vodafone-idea-losses-narrow-as-arpu-climbs\/<br \/>\n[5] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/asia\/vodafone-idea-seal-deal-to-create-india-market-leader\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&rsquo;s Digital Communications Commission (DCC) called for fines levied against Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/asia\/asia-news\/indian-officials-seek-reduction-of-interconnect-fines\/\">Indian officials seek reduction of interconnect fines<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/18\/indian-officials-seek-reduction-of-interconnect-fines\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2507,2,2047,2752,5762,2662,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-Bhk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}