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New Delhi , Sept. 15

The Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Communications on Thursday filed three petitions against state-owned BSNL and MTNL in the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) against rentals charged for points of interconnection and recovery suits.

Acting on the petition, the TDSAT Chairman, Mr Justice Arun Kumar, issued notices to MTNL and BSNL and directed them to file reply within five weeks. The first petition filed against BSNL is related to the rental charge taken by it from Reliance for providing points of interconnect (POIs).

In its petition, Reliance alleged that despite TDSAT's earlier direction, BSNL levied the charges with retrospective effect and acted arbitrarily by taking unilateral decisions. BSNL was providing interconnection with its network to telecom operators on copper cable and later demanded higher rental charges after it shifted to Optical Fibre Cable.

The other two petitions against MTNL and BSNL are in the nature of recovery suits, in which Reliance has sought a refund of the extra amount it had paid to them as interconnection charges. The tribunal has listed the matter on November 7 for next hearing.

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