COAI protests against Tata Tele’s ‘non-stop mobile’ plan

Category: General | No Comments | Posted on October 23, 2005

GSM industry body COAI has approached the Government against Tata Tele’s “Non-stop mobile” pre-paid tariff plan that allows users to receive incoming calls for two years even after exhausting the talktime. As per the scheme, although the subscriber will not be able to make outgoing calls after exhausting talktime, he will be able to receive incoming calls for two years. This allows non-revenue generating users to be included in subscriber base reported by the company.

Urging intervention in the matter, Mr Ramachandran said this new scheme offered by TTSL will result in a gross inflation of the subscriber base and violate the DoT guidelines for calculation of subscriber figures.

”Reporting of incorrect and inflated subscriber figures will result in serious problems in the critical area of monitoring of efficient spectrum utilisation,” he added.

Moreover, even if the government is able to allot more spectrum for such ”theoretical subscribers”, it would not get any additional spectrum usage charge for this since these ”subscribers” would be generating zero revenue, he said.

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