the Cellular Operators Association of India has submitted before tribunal TDSAT, which is hearing a matter on call congestion that "Network congestion is due to lack of Points of Interconnection (point where different networks meet) provided by BSNL... We have no option and the fault is with BSNL,"
Private cellular operators, nursing a grudge against regulator TRAI for making them pay for interconnection with BSNL, gave vent to their feelings by blaming the authority for poor quality of mobile services.
COAI further blamed TRAI for formulating wrong policies on the interconnection front, saying the regulator had put the onus on private operators to get interconnection with BSNL and also bear the entire cost of the exercise.
They demanded that BSNL also share the cost of interconnection.
The operators sought to highlight contradictory stands taken by TRAI, saying the regulator at one time attributed the poor quality to BSNL's failure to provide interconnection and on the other blamed private operators for lack of efforts to get timely access to BSNL network.
The COAI, in a rejoinder filed through advocate Naveen Chawla to BSNL's reply on the matter, stated that at time of framing of rules, the telecom PSU was only a fixed line operator.
BSNL, which subsequently launched Cellone, started routing all the outgoing and incoming calls traffic through the ports installed by them. Hence, the state-run company must share cost of interconnection, COAI argued.
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