{"id":10234,"date":"2026-06-18T05:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=10234"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:43:43","slug":"reliance-jio-denies-telegram-founder-pavel-durovs-bgp-hijacking-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=10234","title":{"rendered":"Reliance Jio denies Telegram founder Pavel Durov&#039;s BGP hijacking allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p>Reliance Jio Infocomm on Wednesday issued a clarification dismissing speculation surrounding an alleged Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route misconfiguration, saying the company had not been involved in any such incident.<\/p> <p>In a statement, the telecom operator said recent posts on the social media platform X had triggered speculation regarding Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (AS55836) and a purported BGP routing issue.<\/p> <p>\u201cRecent posts on X have led to speculation regarding Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (AS55836) and a BGP route misconfiguration. We categorically clarify that Jio has not been involved in any such incident. Jio continues to operate its network in accordance with global Internet routing best practices and the highest standards of reliability, security, and transparency,\u201d the company said.<\/p> <div class=\"embedcode\"> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Recent posts on X have led to speculation regarding Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (AS55836) and a BGP route misconfiguration. We categorically clarify that Jio has not been involved in any such incident. Jio continues to operate its network in accordance with global Internet\u2026<\/p> <p>\u2014 Reliance Jio (@reliancejio) June 17, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote> <\/div> <p>The clarification came a day after Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov accused Reliance of allegedly disrupting access to the messaging platform for users outside India and questioned whether the telecom operator and WhatsApp \u2014 Telegram\u2019s principal rival \u2014 were linked to the recent push to suspend the app in the country.<\/p> <p>Durov alleged that the disruption was part of a \u201ccompetitive war\u201d and claimed that Reliance was \u201cpartly owned\u201d by Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp.<\/p> <p>According to Durov, access to Telegram was being affected through a \u201crogue method\u201d known as BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking, a technique in which internet traffic is redirected by falsely advertising routes to websites or online services. He claimed the issue was impacting users outside India, including those in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where India\u2019s blocking orders do not apply.<\/p> <p>\u201cIndian telecom Reliance is sabotaging access to Telegram for millions of users OUTSIDE India (including the UAE) via a rogue method called BGP hijacking. The sabotage seems intentional, as Reliance has ignored multiple reports,\u201d Durov said in a post on X.<\/p> <p>\u201cThis may be part of a competitive war, as Reliance is partially owned by Meta \u2014 the company behind WhatsApp\u2026 Such abuse of global Internet routing is alarming. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Reliance\/WhatsApp were also behind the recent lobbying effort to ban Telegram in India,\u201d he added.<\/p> <p><strong>What is BGP?<\/strong><\/p> <p>BGP is the internet&#8217;s routing system that enables networks to direct traffic to websites and online services. In a BGP hijack, a network falsely claims to be the preferred route, potentially diverting or disrupting internet traffic.<\/p> <p>According to industry sources, the network identified by Durov does not belong to Reliance Jio and may instead be associated with Reliance Communications, based on publicly available internet routing databases. Reliance Jio, in its statement on Wednesday, specifically denied any involvement in a BGP route misconfiguration and said it continues to operate its network in accordance with global internet routing best practices.<\/p> <p><strong>Why was Telegram banned?<\/strong><\/p> <p>The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Tuesday ordered a temporary block on Telegram in India until June 22 following a recommendation from the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the NEET examination. The move came after allegations that Telegram channels were being used to circulate claims of leaked question papers for the May 3 exam and the June 21 re-examination. According to the NTA, several channels demanded money from students and parents in exchange for purported access to papers. The government has also directed Telegram to disable its message-editing feature until June 30 over concerns it could facilitate misinformation.<\/p> <\/div> <p>Reliance Jio, Pavel Durov, Telegram founder, BGP hijacking, Telegram access disruption, Reliance Jio allegations, Telegram ban India, WhatsApp Meta, internet routing, Jio clarification#Reliance #Jio #denies #Telegram #founder #Pavel #Durov039s #BGP #hijacking #allegations1781732623<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance Jio Infocomm on Wednesday issued a clarification dismissing speculation surrounding an alleged Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route misconfiguration, saying the company had not been involved in any such incident. In a statement, the telecom operator said recent posts on the social media platform X had triggered speculation regarding Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (AS55836) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[11118,40786,40776,10584,40785,2978,23970,40781,832,40782,40784,40774,831,26374,40778,40783,40777,40779,40775,40780],"class_list":["post-10234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-allegations","tag-bgp","tag-bgp-hijacking","tag-denies","tag-durov039s","tag-founder","tag-hijacking","tag-internet-routing","tag-jio","tag-jio-clarification","tag-pavel","tag-pavel-durov","tag-reliance","tag-reliance-jio","tag-reliance-jio-allegations","tag-telegram","tag-telegram-access-disruption","tag-telegram-ban-india","tag-telegram-founder","tag-whatsapp-meta"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}