TRAI Blocks Airtel, Vodafone Idea Plans Offering Faster Speeds to Select Users - bradleytheavizar1974

The Telecom Regulatory Potency of India (TRAI) has asked Airtel and Vodafone Idea to halt plans that offer higher speeds to certain customers. The education comes at a time when a lot of the great unwashe across the country are relying on mobile network operators to work from interior due to the coronavirus general.

The plans tortuous are Vodafone's RedX and Airtel's Platinum. In case you didn't know already, these plans forebode relatively quicker data speeds to postpaid customers. The interrogative sentence TRAI has raised to operators is whether these plans are a consequence of degrading the overall speeds of another general users who are availing regular plans.

"We want to keep nurture the bar for our post-free customers in terms of service and responsiveness. This is an on-going effort at our end," an Airtel spokesperson told PTI. Meanwhile, here's what a Vodafone spokesperson had to enunciat: "Vodafone RedX plan offers a roam of benefits including unlimited data, calls, bounty content, international roaming mob etc. for our quantitative postpaid customers who want more."

Vague statements aside, an anonymous source from Vodafone reportedly told PTI that the company was surprised to receive TRAI's letter asking them to block the plan. They also added that that the company believed its plans did not violate tariff regulations.

It is worth noting that Vodafone's RedX plan has been around for all but eight months. Airtel, on the past hand, proclaimed its program last workweek. At its promulgation, Airtel promised 'Antecedency 4G Network' to members part of its Platinum plan – customers whose plans are worth Rs. 499 and above.