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沃达丰Idea破产:1.4 - 1.5亿2G用户受影响最大
对于Jio来说，这些用户将不得不考虑购买一部新手机。专家表示，这对大多数用户来说是不可行的，并补充说，在这两种情况下，Vi的2G客户都会受到影响。
新德里:印度约有1.4亿至1.5亿2G用户沃达丰的想法如果这家苦苦挣扎的电信公司屈服于财务困境，(Vi)将受到最大的影响行业高管和分析师。在这种情况下，这些用户(主要是每天下注的用户)在转向竞争对手的电信运营商时，将需要支付更多的费用，包括更高的账单或购买新的4G手机依赖JioInfocomm没有2G网络。
Vi在向最高法院提交的审查请愿书中表示，如果它破产，那么2.7亿多用户将陷入困境。其中，Vi拥有1.19亿无线宽带或3G/4G用户，其余为2G用户。
“如果Vi关闭，Airtel将提高价格，这样只有那些能够负担得起服务的人才会使用它的网络。很多2G用户使用的手机质量较低，通常是日常投注，影响了网络质量。Airtel可能不希望这样，”一位不愿透露姓名的业内高管表示。
这位高管说:“然而，他们仍将选择BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.)。”
Bharti Airtel而Jio没有回复《经济时报》的电子邮件询问。
“Vi的低端2G手机用户会发生什么问题，如果它不复存在，这与全球运营商处理2G/3G关机问题的方式类似，尽管他们目前的一部分用户是2G/3G手机用户，”该公司负责人Ashwinder Sethi说Analysys Mason．“Jio和Airtel需要为低端4G手机或4G功能手机提供便利，并提供手机补贴，使这些用户能够买得起4G手机。”
Jio将推出其价格实惠的智能手机，该手机是与谷歌9月3日。虽然价格尚未公布，但行业观察人士表示，穆克什•安巴尼(Mukesh ambani)领导的电信公司将为价格提供大量补贴。
“我真心希望负责保护消费者的印度电信监管局(TRAI)能够格外警惕。它应该确保2G用户可以方便、经济地移植或升级。”Com First(印度)总监Mahesh Uppal说。
沃达丰对最高法院的想法:如果不允许纠正AGR计算中的错误，那就是“对正义的歪曲”
Vi的审查申请是在最高法院驳回其早些时候关于调查交通部所谓算术错误的上诉的几周内提交的，从而确认AGR会费为5825.4亿卢比，其中它已经支付了785.4亿卢比。
虽然有人担心Jio和Bharti Airtel将需要解决与网络容量相关的需求，以容纳Vi的用户，但如果Vi停止存在，移动号码可携性(MNP)公司有信心提高处理Vi客户请求的能力。
“当Aircel和Reliance Communications停止运营时，我们处理了大量的MNP请求，在Vodafone Idea的情况下，我们也会这样做。我们可以迅速提高处理MNP请求的能力。我们一直在与其他电信运营商保持联系，”一位与一家领先的MNP服务提供商合作的高管匿名表示。
目前，Syniverse Technologies India和MNP Interconnection Telecom Solutions India在印度提供MNP服务。这两家公司没有回应《经济时报》的询问。
上周，Aditya Birla集团董事长库马尔·曼加拉姆·伯拉(Kumar Mangalam Birla)退出了该电信公司的董事会，Vi的生存问题凸显出来。不到两个月前，他写信给政府，提出将该集团在Vi的股份移交给任何能够让该公司维持下去的公共部门或国内金融实体。他还断言，如果没有政府的立即支持，电信公司将被推向无法挽回的崩溃地步。
沃达丰创意危机:行业高度警惕!
上周，库马尔·曼加拉姆·伯拉辞去了Vi的非执行董事长兼董事职务，由希曼舒·卡帕尼亚接任。卡帕尼亚是Idea Cellular的非执行董事，曾任Idea Cellular与沃达丰印度合并前的董事总经理。
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<\/figure>NEW DELHI: About 140-150 million 2G subscribers of Vodafone Idea<\/a> (Vi) would be the most affected if the struggling telco succumbs to its financial woes, said industry<\/a> executives and analysts. In such an eventuality, these users \u2013 mainly daily wagers \u2013 would need to pay more while switching to rival telecom operators, in terms of higher bills or to buy new 4G phones since Reliance Jio<\/a> Infocomm does not have a 2G network.
Vi has said in its review petition to the Supreme Court that if it goes bankrupt, then more than 270 million subscribers will be left high and dry. Of these, Vi has 119 million wireless broadband or 3G\/4G subscribers while the rest are 2G ones.
\u201cAirtel will increase prices if Vi closes down so that only those who can afford the service come to its network. A lot of 2G customers, typically daily wagers, use low-quality phones, which impacts the network quality. Airtel might not want that,\u201d said an industry executive, who did not wish to be identified.
<\/div><\/div>For Jio, those users will have to think about buying a new phone. This is not feasible for a majority of such subscribers, experts said, adding that in both situations Vi\u2019s 2G customers will suffer.
\u201cHowever, they will still have BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.) as an option,\u201d said the executive.
Bharti Airtel<\/a> and Jio did not respond to ET\u2019s emailed queries.
\u201cThe question of what happens to the low-end 2G handset users of Vi, in case it ceases to exist, has parallels to how operators globally have handled the 2G\/3G switch-off issue, even though a portion of their current users were 2G\/3G handsets users,\u201d said Ashwinder Sethi, principal at Analysys Mason<\/a>. \u201cJio and Airtel will need to facilitate low-end 4G handsets or 4G feature phones and also provide handset subsidies to enable these users to afford a 4G handset.\u201d
Jio is set to launch its affordable smartphone, developed in partnership with Google<\/a>, on September 3. While the price is yet to be revealed, industry watchers suggest that the price will be heavily subsidised by the Mukesh Ambani-led telco.
\u201cI do hope that TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India), which has a responsibility for consumer protection, will be especially vigilant. It should ensure that 2G users can port or upgrade conveniently and affordably,\u201d said Mahesh Uppal, director of Com First (India).
\u201cHowever, they will still have BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.) as an option,\u201d said the executive.
Bharti Airtel<\/a> and Jio did not respond to ET\u2019s emailed queries.
\u201cThe question of what happens to the low-end 2G handset users of Vi, in case it ceases to exist, has parallels to how operators globally have handled the 2G\/3G switch-off issue, even though a portion of their current users were 2G\/3G handsets users,\u201d said Ashwinder Sethi, principal at Analysys Mason<\/a>. \u201cJio and Airtel will need to facilitate low-end 4G handsets or 4G feature phones and also provide handset subsidies to enable these users to afford a 4G handset.\u201d
Jio is set to launch its affordable smartphone, developed in partnership with Google<\/a>, on September 3. While the price is yet to be revealed, industry watchers suggest that the price will be heavily subsidised by the Mukesh Ambani-led telco.
\u201cI do hope that TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India), which has a responsibility for consumer protection, will be especially vigilant. It should ensure that 2G users can port or upgrade conveniently and affordably,\u201d said Mahesh Uppal, director of Com First (India).
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