Roaming rates slashed
MobilePundit writes…Telecom Regulatory Authority of India issued a tariff order substantially reducing the tariffs
for national roaming for mobile subscribers. This would result in reduction of roaming tariffs to the extent of 22% to 56% compared with the current market rates.
Distance neutral composite ceiling tariffs specified.
No rental for roaming in any form.
Mobile operators can not charge any type of fixed or recurring charges for accessing roaming facility, for example, monthly rental, weekly rental , daily rental etc.
Receiving SMS is free while roaming.
Maximum permissible per minute charges for roaming calls, irrespective of the terminating networks, and irrespective of tariff plans would be:
Rs. 1.40 for outgoing local calls
Rs. 2.40 for outgoing NLD calls
Rs. 1.75 for incoming calls
Reliance does not charge a roaming rental. It has a country wide network and the subscriber always stays on its network while roaming unlike GSM operators where a subscriber of Operator A can use the network of Operator B while roaming.
BSNL doesn’t share its network with roaming users of other GSM operators except MTNL. I am curious to know what roaming rental did BSNL users pay till now.
