NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Trai is believed to have told the Department of Telecom (DoT) that it does not have any ground to seek compliance from operators, including Reliance Jio , during testing of networks under current rules. "Trai has replied to DoT's letter which asked (it) to seek compliance from telecom operators, mainly RJIL, on duration , subscriber numbers etc during testing of their network. It claims to have 1.5 million subscribers during this phase. The company has set a target of achieving 100 million subscribers within a year of commercial rollout of service.DoT had asked Trai to seek compliance from telecom operators on scale, duration of testing, network inter-connection and matters pertaining to subscriber addition. "Trai has told DoT that to address issues around testing of telecom networks, it should seek a reference formally from the regulator on the subject.

Source: Economic Times August 17, 2016 15:11 UTC