Vodafone Idea (Vi) has complained to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) that Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are indulging in predatory pricing with their respective unlimited 5G offers.
While calling on Trai to act against its larger rivals, the struggling telco has said that the two, being significant market players (SMP), cannot offer 5G for free, and that too for an unlimited time, thereby accelerating the subscriber churn at cash-strapped Vi, officials aware of the details told ET.
Trai sought responses from Jio and Airtel, both of whom have rejected Vi’s allegations. In separate responses, they have said that they can’t be called out for offering predatory tariffs as 5G currently has a very small user base with the network rollout currently under…
