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Blaming Reliance Jio for the financial difficulties of the telecommunications sector, the BSNL employee unions claimed on Wednesday that the government was favoring the last entrant over other companies and announced an indefinite strike at starting December 3rd.
The Unions claim that the government has not allocated spectrum for 4G services to BSNL in order to prevent it from competing with Reliance Jio.
Reliance Jio did not comment on the allegations.
"The entire telecom sector is in crisis … All this is due to the predatory pricing of Reliance Jio, owned by Mukesh Ambani.The entire game of Reliance Jio must eliminate its competitors, including including BSNL, owned by the state, "BSNL unions said in a joint statement.
All BSNL unions and badociations (AUAB) claimed that with its huge financial power, Reliance Jio offers services to "Below cost" tariffs Private telecommunications companies such as Aircel, Tata Teleservices, Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Communications and Telenor have already closed their mobile telephony services.
is eliminated.
" It will plunder people by dramatically increasing call and data charges Reliance Jio is overtly sponsored by the Narendra Modi government, "the statement said.
The Prime Minister's Office did not comment on this. "had asked for the 4G spectrum allocation, but" the government turned a deaf ear to this request, with the ultimate goal of preventing the public sector company from competing with Reliance Jio ".
All BSNL officials and workers are
"The strike claims include the immediate allocation of the 4G spectrum to BSNL for the deployment of its 4G service, the implementation of the government rule relating to the BSNL's contribution pension payment, employee salary review and pensioner's pension review, effective January 1, 2017 ", the statement said.
He also claimed that anyone was attempting to act against Reliance Ji had to pay the price, including former Secretary of Communications, JS Deepak.
"JS Deepak wrote to the Trai asking that Reliance Jio take action to adopt predatory pricing. As a result Equation, JS Deepak was instantly excluded from the DoT … Narendra Modi's government made it clear what would happen to anyone who would dare to speak against RIiance Jio, "the unions said.
Deepak was appointed ambbadador of India to the World Trade Organization (WTO) during his stay abroad to participate in the World Mobile Congress 2017 in Spain.
The unions stated that BSNL was losing more than 8,800 crore in 2011. However, thanks to the combined efforts of employees and management, the UAP has earned an operating profit of 672 , 57 billion rupees in 2014-2015.
"The improved performance of BSNL is also reflected in the expansion of its customer base. It should be remembered that BSNL realizes all these achievements without 4G technology and only with 2G and 3G technologies, while all private companies are equipped with 4G technology, "the statement said.
AUAB also requires the government to settle its affairs with respect to the payment of pension contributions by BSNL.
"It is atrocious that the Narendra Modi government is breaking its own rules and hurting BSNL tremendously every year. , in the name of the pension contribution. It is bad for the financial health of society, "the unions said.
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