No hike for intra-network rates

Posted on | September 19, 2005 |

TRAI has asked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) not to issue directives disallowing differential tariff for intra-network calls.

DoT had earlier planned to issue a directive asking all the telecom operators to withdraw tariff schemes discriminating between calls terminating within the same network and calls terminating in other networks.

Reliance Infocomm, for example, under some of its schemes charges 40 paise per minute for calls made to its own network. Similarly, Hutch-to-Hutch local calls cost 50 paise a minute and Airtel-to-Airtel local calls cost Re 1 per minute…

“We feel that such consumer friendly plans should not be interfered with and such a step would be against DoT’s objective. This may also lead to a demand for similar tariffs between fixed-fixed and fixed-mobile calls, which would be of disadvantage to fixed operators,

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