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TRAI had asked Reliance Jio to explain its Happy New Year offer
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has told telecom regulator TRAI that its latest voice and data offer does not violate any of the existing norms that requires promotional offers to be limited to 90 days.
Jio has been maintaining that the latest Happy
New Year offer is substantiatively different from the Jio
Welcome Offer (that commenced on September 5) as 4GB of free
data per day was being provided under the initial offer, while the same was
capped at 1GB (under Fair Usage Policy) in the new offer.
Jio is believed to have
also emphasised that tariff plans have multiple components and if even a single
component is altered, it cannot be construed as the same offer or its
extension.
Also,
they contend, that in the first offer there was no option of renewal or payment
after the 4GB limit was exhausted, but
in the new offer, one can recharge both data and the promised speed.
In
terms of market dominance, Reliance Jio is six percent of the installations in
the country whereas the Competition Commission of India (CCI) norms specify 30 percent threshold to
trigger the misuse of market dominance' clause.
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