Cheaper calling: STD, roaming tariffs set to come down
Trai
said that it will review carriage charges every two years from now on
and fixed the next review in the financial year 2017-18.
NEW DELHI: Your STD and roaming bills will soon see a major reduction with telecom regulator Trai slashing a key rate charged on calls made outside the home network.
The relief comes a day after Trai had paved the way for a cut in local mobile as well as landline tariffs by reducing the charge companies pay to terminate calls on competing networks.
Issuing an amendment to the Telecommunication Inter-connection Usage Charges Regulations, Trai issued a new order that reduces the per-minute ceiling for carriage of inter-state calls from 65 paise per minute to 35 paise per minute.
The relief comes a day after Trai had paved the way for a cut in local mobile as well as landline tariffs by reducing the charge companies pay to terminate calls on competing networks.
Issuing an amendment to the Telecommunication Inter-connection Usage Charges Regulations, Trai issued a new order that reduces the per-minute ceiling for carriage of inter-state calls from 65 paise per minute to 35 paise per minute.
"This would result in STD calls getting cheaper by a similar degree as
carriage charge is the only additional cost that is levied on STD
conversations on mobile when compared to a local call," Arvind Kumar,
adviser at Trai, told TOI here.
Trai said that it will review carriage charges every two years from now on and fixed the next review in the financial year 2017-18.
