Mumbai Delhi local

Category: News | No Comments | Posted on May 24, 2006

From June 1, calls between Delhi and Mumbai on MTNL’s fixedline network will be charged at local call rates of Rs 1.20 for a three-minute call.

Currently, MTNL charges Rs 1.90 for a one-minute call between Delhi and Mumbai. Private operators are also likely to follow MTNL. They currently charge upto Rs 2.65 a minute.

The company, on Tuesday, announced the launch of its national long distance (NLD) services. Currently, BSNL is the NLD carrier for MTNL. BSNL charges 65 paise per minute from MTNL to carry its NLD traffic. VSNL has offered very attractive rates to MTNL to lease its network. Therefore, MTNL is able to offer very low rates.

“MTNL has been paying huge carriage charges for its calls routed outside Delhi and Mumbai. By tying up with VSNL, we shall be buying huge bandwidth capacity (4 STM1s) at a cost of Rs 2.64 crore annually, thereby saving Rs 8-10 crore on cost,

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