Bharti Airtel has lost a legal case against Reliance Jio, filed with the Competition Commissions of India (CCI). Airtel, in its complaint to CCI, alleged that Jio was involved in predatory pricing and used its dominant position in other markets to enter and penetrate the telecom market. Note that Jio’s parent company Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has units in petroleum, yarn/polymer production, and other manufacturing and production industries. The CCI, however, ruled that it doesn’t find Jio violating Section 4 (2)(a)(ii) and 4(2)(e) of the Competition Act, 2002 which deals with predatory pricing and dominant position. The commission added that it dismissed Airtel’s complaints against Jio after no prima facie evidence was presented for most of the complaints. Meanwhile, in May this year, CCI had initiated an investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices committed by Airtel, Idea, Vodafone India and lobbying group COAI for apparently trying to block Reliance Jio’s entry into the market As per Airtel’s complaint to CCI, Infotel Business Services Private Limited, which is now fully owned by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), won the spectrum auctions in 2300 MHz (meant for LTE) on a pan-India basis in 2010. RIL acquired full control of Infotel, which held only an ISP license at that time. RIL then renamed Infotel to ‘Reliance Jio’ and subsequently migrated Infotel’s ISP license meant for providing only broadband into a UASL license meant for providing voice and data services back in 2013. RIL has invested close to Rs 1.6 lakh crore into Jio, the complaint claimed.…
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