Why Jio to adopt bullying tactics to meet with the competition ?

Fighting among the competitions are quiet natural and at times it gets ugly. Recently, Bharti Airtel has sent a letter to the telecom department slamming Reliance Jio's allegations that channel partners of rival telcos were inciting and provoking agitators involved in tower disruption.

"The baseless allegation made by Jio that Airtel is behind the farmer agitation to “sabotage” their network and to force customers to switch to Airtel is simply outrageous," Airtel's chief regulatory officer, Rahul Vatts, said in a letter to the DoT secretary Anshu Prakash dated December 28.

It says, we have seen a history of Jio going to any length to make baseless allegations, adopt bullying tactics and use intimidatory behaviour to suit their purposes and meet their goals. This is another such instance.

Airtel said, Jio's complaint should be dismissed "with the contempt that it deserves". "We also wish to emphatically state that not a single part of any supporting annexure to the complaint by Jio demonstrates any evidence that Airtel has any hand in the ongoing issues that Jio is facing.

Jio's letter to the DoT had claimed that "majority of the current sabotage and damage of Jio network in Punjab, Haryana and some other parts of the country is as a result of the blatant efforts by some of the distributors, retailer and channel partners of Airtel and Vodafone Idea in a malicious and inciteful campaign to capitalise on the ongoing farmers protest".

Jio had said the target of the campaign was to disrupt its services and leverage these disruptions to promote mobile number portability to other networks.

Airtel said Jio's complaint against the company was "in poor taste".