Sufficient interconnect points for Jio: BSNL

BSNL has said it has provided “sufficient points of interconnect” to Reliance Jio and can augment it more based on requirement. BSNL CMD Anupam Shrivastava told PTI that there has been no fresh request from Jio for increasing the capacity at points of interconnect, and added “should they make an enquiry, we will augment the capacity.”
“We have provided sufficient points of interconnect to Jio...while Jio is providing voice calls free of cost, whenever those calls land into BSNL network, we get interconnectivity charge of 14 paise...so it makes commercial sense for us,” he said. Interconnection between telecom networks is crucial as it enables mobile users to make calls to subscribers of other operator. A mobile operator levies interconnection usage charge for each incoming call it gets from a subscriber of another network. BSNL said it has not experienced any call congestion on its network with regard to traffic coming from Jio. —PTI