Bharti Airtel, a leading telecom service provider in India has provided 7000 more additional points of interconnect (PoIs) to Reliance Jio, taking the total number of those provided to over 17,000, which claimed to be enough to cater a user base of 75 million. The move from Bharti Airtel comes within days of the telecom regulator TRAI suggesting a Rs 1050 crore penalty on it for purportedly denying network connectivity to the new operator Reliance Jio. More than 280 crore calls have failed between RJIL and Airtel over the last three and a half months because of absolute shortage of POI capacity.
Bharti Airtel is a leading integrated telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. The company ranks amongst the top 5 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers.
