Trai has decided to drop proceedings against Vodafone Idea in the priority plan case after the operator withdrew contentious claims on faster speed and modified its offering.

Last month, the regulator had slapped a show-cause notice on Voda Idea saying the tariff offer lacked transparency and was “misleading” and not in compliance with regulatory framework.

Voda Idea recently dropped the faster data speed claims, which formed a prominent part of its pay-more-for-priority-treatment scheme, and filed a revised plan.

The regulator has now informed Voda Idea that “the authority has decided not to proceed with the investigation/ further inquiry”. The Trai letter, seen by PTI, noted that the operator has informed that the earlier RedX plan has been discontinued and that a new tariff plan of RedX, without the claim of priority 4G network with faster speed, has been filed.

The company’s website too had stopped touting claims of faster speeds for the RedX plan and instead spoke of benefits purely in terms of entertainment privileges (Netflix and Amazon Prime) and travel and mobility benefits.

Trai had been examining Vodafone Idea’s priority plan RedX and Bharti Airtel’s Platinum offering to see if network preference to specific customers led to deterioration of services for other non-premium subscribers.