Call drops on Reliance Jio reduces as top rival players release additional interconnection points

The call drops on Reliance Jio dropped by 28% after Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular released additional Points of Interconnection (PoIs).

"The situation has improved significantly and is going to get better over the new few weeks," a Jio official told ET, sounding a conciliatory note after weeks of bitterness between the newcomer and India's three largest operators.

Out of 30 crore call attempts by Jio, around 8.5 crore to the top three incumbent operators failed on November 7.

As per the data on the Reliance Jio website, nearly 34% of the 13.81 crore call attempts made to Airtel from Jio failed. The failure rate on the Vodafone network stood at 26.7% out of 8.79 crore calls, while Idea network had the lowest call failure rate at 18.9% out of 7.48 crore calls.

Meanwhile, Airtel claimed it rolled out total 17,000 PoI, saying they were sufficient to support as much as 75 million Jio's subscribers.

A spokesperson for India's second largest telco Vodafone India, in a statement to ET, said that it has provided Jio with points of interconnection (PoI) capacity to cater to 50 million subscribers, as per the new entrant's indicated requirements and parameters.