New Delhi: Mobile operators’ body COAI has requested DoT to take proactive steps to stop calls through apps, like the one recently planned by state-owed BSNL, reports PTI.
In a letter to Telecom Secretary JS Deepak, COAI Director General Rajan S Mathews said that connecting Internet calls with networks using numbers assigned for mobile or landline phones violated current interconnection rules and causes loss to terminating operator and exchequer.
The Cellular Operators Association of India, which represents GSM technology based operators like Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, Vodafone and Telenor has written similar letters to stop fixed mobile convergence service of state-run BSNL. Reliance Jio Infocomm is also member of COAI but the industry body said that “Reliance Jio has a divergent view on the matter”. The FMC facility of BSNL allows users to use landline service on their mobile phones like making and receiving calls and vice-versa.
It even has provision to allow BSNL customers to activate their FMC application on mobile phone using wifi or any other data connection and then use their landline facility to make calls even if they are abroad.
