One India

Posted on | June 25, 2005 |

The Minister of Communications Dayanidhi Maran recently announced a ‘OneIndia‘ vision of uniform call rates for local and long-distance calls, treating the entire country as a single market. Here is an article from Vikram Mehmi, CEO of Idea Celluar on the issues facing OneIndia.

Long-distance calls generally comprise three charges: the originating charge, the carriage charge and the termination charge plus the ADC. In order to make India One dream a reality, the carriage charge and ADC is what needs to be drastically reduced. The stage was set in the first phase when Trai (telecom regulator) announced a reduction in leased line charges by nearly 70%. This would presume a proportionate reduction in carriage cost for national long-distance operators (NLDO)

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