MUMBAI: Aircel and Reliance Communications have accused larger rivals Bharti AirtelBSE 0.75 %, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India of trying to poach subscribers through misleading campaigns that claimed the smaller telcos were shutting down their overall and enterprise voice businesses, respectively.
Both Aircel and RCom, struggling to stay afloat after attempts at merging their businesses fell through recently, have complained to the telecom department (DoT) and the regulator, seeking action against the three service providers.