Jio alleges incumbent operators pretend wireline calls as mobile to gain IUC

Reliance Jio has accused Airtel, Vodafone Idea and BSNL of masquerading wireline numbers as mobile numbers. Jio has alleged that the incumbent operators are doing this to get higher interconnect usage charges.

Every time a Jio user calls a mobile subscriber on another operator’s network, Jio has to pay interconnect fee to that operator. Jio has alleged that by showing a wireline number as mobile connection, the incumbent operators are taking a higher termination charge.

“The incumbent operators have implemented a process, under which various enterprises are offered mobile numbers as their customer care/helpline numbers. Some of the popular examples are like 8888888888 by Just Dial, 9313931393 by Oyo, 9115691156 by Videocon D2H etc.