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The telecom department has asked Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel to pay within three weeks Rs 3,050 crore as penalties for allegedly breaking licence terms by denying Reliance Jio Infocomm their networks, the Economic Times reported Friday two weeks after the government announced a relief package for the industry.
Airtel has to pay Rs 1,050 crore and Vodafone Idea Rs 2,000 crore for the alleged violation of norms on points of interconnection (PoIs) in 2016, said the newspaper.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had recommended fines in 2016; the telecom department accepted its recommendations in June 2019 but
