Idea Cellular on Friday said it has agreed to provide 230 per cent additional inter-connection capacity to help users of Reliance Jio complete calls, a move the Mukesh Ambani-led firm termed as “grossly inadequate” displaying lack of intent to resolve the critical issue.
Days after Jio accused dominant incumbent operators of providing inadequate points of inter-connections (PoIs), Idea on Friday said it will “further enhance capacity in both access and long-distance inter-connection, by providing over 230 per cent additional capacity, allowing for two-way calling between the networks”.
Idea said it has now provisioned 1,865 ports for access, from the 565 earlier. Simultaneously, the NlD (national long distance) capacity is also being expanded by nearly 50 per cent.
“With this huge capacity expansion, over 2,100 ports will now be available for traffic between Idea and Jio, allowing sufficient buffer for future,” Idea said in a statement.
Terming the offer as “disappointing”, Reliance Jio said four crore calls fail every day between the Idea network and its own.