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HC sets aside CCI order to probe telecom 'cartel'

Jio had complained against incumbent operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea for forming a cartel and blocking its entry

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Reliance Jio plans to woo a large part of the 650 million feature phone customers who mostly use voice

Kiran RatheeVeena Mani New Delhi
In a setback to Reliance Jio, the Bombay High Court set aside a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order, wherein the fair trade regulator had ordered a director-general (D-G) level probe to ascertain if the incumbent operators were involved in cartelisation to thwart the entry of the Mukesh Ambani-led Jio.

Jio had in November last year approached CCI alleging the incumbents were abusing their dominant market power by forming a cartel and denying it the requisite number of points of interconnect (PoIs).  Jio had complained against incumbent operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular for forming a cartel and blocking its