Reliance Industries’ telecommunications division, Jio, has called on the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India to take action against rival networks Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea for allegedly trying to change the perception of customers amid protests by farmers. against the government’s farm laws, Reuters reported Monday. .
The company run by Mukesh Ambani claimed in its letter to the telecoms regulator on December 10 that rival networks created the impression that it would benefit from all three laws. “Once again we inform you that, as a result of the aforementioned false advertising by competitors to affect customer perception, we have been receiving a large number of portals (cancellation) applications, ”Reliance Jio said in the letter.
Jio added that his rivals were promoting rumors about “unethical pecuniary benefits in the form of induced portability of RJIL (Jio) clients,” according to Mint.
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone denied Jio’s “unfounded” allegations, according to Reuters. “Despite being provoked by some competitors who we know will go to great lengths to make baseless accusations, adopt intimidation tactics and use intimidating behavior, we have always conducted our business with character and transparency, something of which we are deeply proud and for those who know us. ” Airtel said in a letter, according to Mint.
Airtel said Jio’s complaint deserved to be “dismissed with the contempt it deserves.” “It is in bad taste and defamatory, to say the least,” he added.
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Tens of thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting at key entry points into Delhi for 20 days straight. Farmers fear that agricultural reforms will weaken the minimum price support mechanism under which the government purchases agricultural products, lead to deregulation of crop prices, deny them fair remuneration for their products, and leave them at the mercy of the farmers. corporations.
When farmers went on hunger strike on Monday, the Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the government was willing to discuss each clause of the three contentious farm laws with protesting farmers.
On December 9, they rejected the Center’s written proposal on amendments to the three laws and threatened to intensify their protests. Tomar, however, said that 10 organizations associated with the All India Kisan Coordination Committee had extended their support for the laws.
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