Tata Tele drags Rel Info to TDSAT

Posted on | August 29, 2005 |

Tata Teleservices has approached the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) accusing Reliance Infocomm of failing to provide interconnection in 12 new circles to its mobile and fixed wireless phones. The circles include Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh,Bihar, Orissa, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Kolkata.

At present, calls made by Tata Indicom subscribers to Reliance customers are being routed through BSNL’s network and the company has to pay an extra 19 paise as carriage charges for each call to the PSU. Whereas calls from Reliance phone to Tatas are not being completed.

TRAI directs operators to provide interconnections within 90 days of payments being made by the seeking company.

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