Reliance Communications has reportedly lodged a complaint against the Nokia for allegedly diverting handsets meant for the company to Tata Teleservices.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has registered an FIR against mobile handset maker Nokia on a complaint filed by Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications alleging that handsets meant for its subscribers were being used by rival firm Tata Teleservices as well.
The FIR was registered by the Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi Police following a complaint by RCOM.
When contacted, a Reliance official confirmed it has lodged a complaint against Nokia for allegedly diverting handsets meant for the company to Tata Teleservices.
In its complaint, RCOM has claimed the handsets were hacked and modified to make it compliant with Tata's network.
RCoM had entered into an agreement with Nokia in August 2006 for sale of handsets at a special price if activated on Reliance network.
Under the agreement, Nokia was to channel the handsets through its distributor Brightpoint across the country till end of May 2007.
On sale of every Nokia handset along with RCOM services, Brightpoint was to raise an invoice to RCOM for the differential amount to be reimbursed by RCOM to Brightpoint.
The co-branded handsets were programmed with RCOM Logo and applications along with a network lock enabling them to work only on its CDMA network.
"In month of February 2006, it was discovered the number of handsets for which Brightpoint had raised invoices to RCOM was not matching with the number of Nokia handsets activated," the RCOM official said.
When contacted, a Nokia India spokesperson said, "Currently we have no formal notice regarding the matter. We will find out details and work with Reliance to resolve it".
While Reliance claimed the complaint is also against Tata Teleservices, the Tata company denied any involvement in this.
"We are not aware or in receipt of any such alleged complaint. Therefore, we are not in a position to comment on this matter," a TTSL spokesperson said.
"In fact, having come to know from the media today on this alleged complaint, we have asked Nokia and Brightpoint to look into the matter and revert to us on how TTSL is supposed to be involved in this matter," the spokesperson said.
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