4G Blame Game Between Airtel and Reliance Jio - Why Only Airtel, Vodafone & Idea Not others

The ongoing war of words between Airtel and Reliance Jio is nothing but new business strategy. If one look at the news reports, 90% of the blame is targeted towards Airtel.

It's also interesting to know that 2 Cr call drop is happening just because of that and it indicate the number of subscribers Reliance Jio acquired in recent weeks.

We failed to hear any statement from Reliance Jio that X number of call failure because of Reliance communications, Aircel, BSNL which is controlling more than 27% of the total wireless user Base.

It means that Reliance jio received full cooperation from them and there is no issue when it comes to MNP for those users who want to port in on to Reliance Jio, No call drops or negligible call drop. If yes or no, Reliance Jio should release the statement to justify their statements.

It's being observed that the three bugs are on Reliance jio hit list whereas the others are in ignores list.

As claimed by Jio that the call drop problem is not there in Jio to Jio call and they might be right whereas they should understand that in a scenario of jio to other network, interoperability plays a key roles. Reliance jio cannot just throw Airtel claim indicating that there must be issue with Reliance jio network but should work closely with Airtel to rectify the bug and fix it.

I kept on writing in my previous article that Reliance Jio is going to face the. music once concurrent user base will increase and we can feel the pain point attached with Reliance jio.

Being a keen learner, I kindly request Reliance Jio to release the call failure rate because of non top three.

In my point of view, Reliance jio should stop thinking that their network is the best and they may get their way all the time. Collaboration is the way to innovation not blames game.

India 4G User Acquisition & Retention - Who is Suffering at the End

Reliance Jio entry into Indian Telecom sector started creating scenario wherein incumbent operators are at the spot.

Latest in the saga, Reliance Jio again approached TRAI and accused Airtel,Vodafone and Idea for blocking users who wants to port out of their existing service providers to Reliance Jio network.  The number involved in total is less than 200 and that shows Reliance Jio commitment towards their potential user.

At the same time, incumbent cannot let the user port out of the network till the guideline of the Mobile Number Portability set by TRAI.

Indian incumbent operators faced the music of MNP and how end user exploited it in 2012 to 2014 era  wherein user took the service of one operator with goodies and then ported out to another one post exhausting the goodies.

In 2012 to 2014 era challengers like Telenor  and others used MNP in their favor and acquire millions of user but unfortunately most of the user were low ARPU user.

It is surprising that based on the reports published in leading new paper not mentioned  Aircel, Reliance Communication and other which in my point bring me to a conclusion that Reliance Jio is only facing problems with three leading incumbent operator. It would be great to know about BSNL user requesting for porting out and it's status.

The real test of porting in and out using MNP will show its class post Reliance Jio start commercial service. Till Dec 31 st 2016 most of the Indian mobile users will try to misuse Reliance Jio service as it is free. I am also delighted that this time around Reliance Jio is so focused about consumer but at the end consumers are suffering. If any legitimate user trying to port out then they should not be used as dice to play competitive strategy. It's a common practice by operator to put across many clause as some of the end user through their past act forced incumbent operators to put across multiple clause related to exit.

For few, mass is suffering and both incumbent and Reliance Jio should solve it the way they did it with PoI

Reliance & Aircel Potential Merger - Opportunity For Airtel, Vodafone and Ideacellular

For the last 6 months, there is buzz in the market place that Reliance Communications and Aircel is joining hand to fight with big players as well as face Reliance Jio Onslaught collectively. Both the organization is reeling under huge debt and constantly losing market share. The fund constraints also put them in tight spot to innovate new products in  order to differentiate themselves.

As per the industry news, both the organization will own 50% each and company will have thousands of Crores of loans on their books. If the merger goes through then there will be major realignment will happen in both the organization and biggest loser will be employees of both the organization.

On the market competition side, both the organization is very confident that they will be better placed to ward off any competition including Reliance Jio and will gain market share. They are also claiming that their revenue market share will grow from the current level of around 12%.

In my point of view, Reliance Communications failed to increase their wireless business for the last 3 to 4 years with stagnated revenue but their debt level went beyond their control. Reliance Communications is also well known for their poor customer care.

Most of the partner working with Reliance Communications also face issues in integration due to legacy network and innovation is completely missing. The recent move by Reliance Communications to force millions of user to port on to 4G dented their image.

If the merger goes through then there will be distraction within management level of both the organizations as both the parties will be busy in realignment of business, product line, regulatory etc and that will open an opportunity of window for incumbent operators like Airtel, Vodafone and Ideacellular .

Reliance and Aircel on collective basis is having more than 60 million data user as well as around 7 to 8 Millions of prepaid userbase.

I also would like to point out that many user still remember the very poor service offered by Reliance when Mr.Mukesh Ambani launched telecom service with number of complaint on billing side and that is the reason that i have not considered Reliance Jio in the race.

All of us are talking about Reliance Jio impact on Airtel or Vodafone or IdeaCellular but missed to identify the opportunity lying in front of them. Read More

TRAI Current Feeler on Point of Interconnect and Termination Charges - One Gaining, Rest Loosing

Based on the reports published in Economic Times, TRAI offered their intentions clear by sending out feeler that they are not going to allow Incumbent Operator such as Airtel , Vodafone, Ideacellular and others to ask for higher termination fee. They also indicated that Incumbent operators must provide required number of point of interconnect to Reliance Jio.

If I am not wrong, TRAI few days back released an statement that they recommended the concerned parties to resolve the concerns through talks. They also pointed out that in case both the parties will fail to come to common agreement then only TRAI is going to intervene.

Since Economic Times came out with the report and if I believe on that report then I want to ask TRAI very simple query that " How TRAI came to conclusion that talks will yield no result". " Why they are not focusing on revenue loss which will be incurred by Government given the impact of low per minute realization.

At the end its my assessment and i might be wrong that India is a place where the single agenda of regulators are to squeeze out player. Regulators must realize that any degradation of Incumbent mobile operator financial health means job losses, more NPA, impact on IT sector, Impact on Startups and loss of government revenue and more importantly another recession.

Its a right saying in India that If I am happy then rest happy; If I am sad then rest should be sad. Dear regulators please wake up...

TRAI Failed Attempt to Bridge the Differences Between Reliance Jio and Airtel,Vodafone,Ideacellular, and Other

Post lots of mud slugging on each other, TRAI directed Reliance Jio and Incumbent Operators like Airtel, Vodafone, Ideacellular and Others to sit across the table and make a way to break the impasse on point of interconnect. Based on the report, Tcc to show the world that they tried and directed both the parties to settle the issues through talks. They also pointed out that failure on agreement will force TRAI to act which will be enforced. TRAI made a path clear for both the parties to waste another two months in discussion and subsequent to that another month for TRAI to release their order which will be challenged by the Operator in any circumstances.

Great work done by TRAI.