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The telecom regulator has sent Shoe cause Notice to Vodafone Idea Ltd. and granted additional time till Sept. 8 to reply on priority plan after the carrier asked more time to respond. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is adopting strict measures on telecom companies. TRAI had slapped a show-cause notice on Vodafone Idea over its pay-more-for-priority treatment mobile plan, for the tariff offer “lacks transparency” and is “mislead and not in compliance with the regulatory framework”.
Previously TRAI had given time till Aug. 31 to Vodafone Idea to respond, but later extended the deadline to Sept. 4 due to company’s request.
Vodafone Idea again wrote to the regulator stating at least 15 days are needed to respond to the elaborate 17-page show-cause notice that was issued on Aug. 25.
The TRAI, probing Vodafone Idea’s priority plan, had issued a show-cause notice asking the company “why appropriate action should not be initiated against it for violating the extant regulatory framework by its RedX tariff plan…”
The sector regulator is also of the view that the “claim of Vodafone Idea for providing ‘Priority 4G Network with faster data speeds’ is not in compliance with the extant regulatory framework “