As usual, Jio is dictating the rules and regulations in the Mobile sector.
- Airtel said, despite its repeated requests for the last 7-8 weeks, Trai has neither directed Jio to restore the timer to its original 45 seconds nor issued any general direction to all operators to set the timer to 30 seconds as proposed by the majority of operators.
- In the absence of any direction from TRAI and to prevent further loss of IUC (interconnect usage charge), we are left with no other option than to reduce the timer in our network as well: Airtel