India's top telecom operator, Reliance Jio<\/a>, has asked the telecom regulator to take strict action against Vodafone Idea<\/a> and Bharti Airtel<\/a> for resorting to \"unethical\" ways and spreading \"frivolous rumors\" about the company that it will gain from the Farm Bills<\/a>.
In a stern letter to the telecom regulator, Jio<\/a> blamed its rivals for this vicious campaign stating that \"large number of port out requests, wherein the customers are citing this as the sole reason for porting out of Jio without having any complaints or other issues related to Jio services\", said the Mukesh Ambani led telco in its letter dated December 11.
\"This is further to our aforementioned letter dated 28 September 2020 highlighting the unethical and anti competitive MNP campaign, being run by Airtel and Vi to capitalize on the ongoing farmers protests in the northern parts of the country,\" said Jio which had in September also raised the issue of transparency in tariff plans of its competitors.
Retailers in Faridabad , Bahadurgarh, Chandigarh, Firozpur and other parts of NCR and Punjab have seen an increase in customers porting out of Reliance Jio and joining either Vodafone Idea or Bharti Airtel. Retailers have told ET that these areas are seeing farmers coming in droves and asking for a new SIM or filling up port out requests .
\"These companies continue to remain directly indirectly involved in supporting and furthering the ensued notions, and false frivolous rumors of Reliance being an undue beneficiary of the farm bills for unethical pecuniary benefits in the form of induced porting of RJIL customers,\" said the telco in its scathing letter.
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