| So I was right about your malicious intent. You cherry picked 3 lines and twisted their meaning to suit your narrative. Anything that didn't suit your malicious intent gets ignored totally while your try to divert attention. > Protection for them has been around when the previous government was there too. FDI norms were eased only in the fag end of 2012. And yet you totally neglect that when flipkart begged for speific ecommerce protection none was provided Only when Ambani reacted to launch JioMart was the protection avoided Also I love how to totally ignored the fact that Jio abused and how the entire govt machinery has favoured Jio Also how Jio abused and flouted ALL regulatory things and gave free data calls for over one year when the law explicitly forbids it. I also love how you ignore that the govt pressurized telcos to pay AGR dues while Jio was let out of the payment cycle > Tesla went to China for cheap labor. Do you think ill-treatment of workers in Chinese factories will be reported by "Independent media" in China? Well, Modi govt put red tape so much that Tesla chose to go to a country which blatantly copies IP and patents. Things are that bad. |
Jio was questioned and it argued that IUC (Interconnect Usage Charges, the minimum charges that are to levied on the user for a voice call on any Indian cellular network, these charges are charges levied by a network for a call that originates in another network but terminates in its network) was relevant to normal mobile calls, and what Jio was providing was essentially data calls, akin to talking on whatsapp, it can give away free calls.
It's not like it was not questioned, or it did not explain. Also other operators have opposed the free calls issue because they earn quite a bit of revenue from IUC charges, which are basically a tax on allowing users on one network to call users on another network.
So you can make the call, whether Jio actually flouted the rules, or did it make it cheap for everyone to make calls in the market.
As an additional point, TRAI, the main Telecom regulating body in India, has slashed the IUC charges by half in 2018 and is set to be completely removed by December 2020
> I also love how you ignore that the govt pressurized telcos to pay AGR dues while Jio was let out of the payment cycle
AGR dues are just that, dues. Money the companies were supposed to pay, but did not and accumulated the dues. Jio was a new entrant and has significantly lesser dues (195 crores), compared to other players (Airtel, which has been in the market for decades, owes about 44000 crores). All of them were given a time period of 10 years to make staggered payments, payments that they were supposed to pay, but ignored. That is a huge loss for the country. Even in the courts, the companies did not fight about dues, they fought about whether they were responsible for past pending dues on spectrum, that they purchased from other companies.
All companies went to court, when they were asked to pay past dues of spectrum purchased by them recently. Essentially they were asked to pay for the dues accrued on the spectrum, they recently purchased from failing companies.
>And yet you totally neglect that when flipkart begged for speific ecommerce protection none was provided
Flipkart opposed relaxing rules related to FDI norms and asked for specific protections for e-comerce. The rules were relaxed nevertheless.
>Only when Ambani reacted to launch JioMart was the protection avoided
I guess you meant to say 'provided". I would like to know what specific protections were provided to JioMart?
>Well, Modi govt put red tape so much that Tesla chose to go to a country which blatantly copies IP and patents.
>Things are that bad.
I am curious about this also. As far as I remember, Tesla never showed any interest in building a factory in India. However, what exactly are the "red tape so much" that you are talking about?