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TRAI intends to lower mobile tariffs (India)

  • January 2nd, 2009
  • 6:39 am

Telecom Tariffs are expected to fall as the regulator is considering reviewing termination charges. Termination charges can be explained as, if an Airtel subscriber calls a Vodafone subscriber, then Airtel pays termination charges to Vodafone. Presently, termination charges are 30 paise per minute. If termination charges are slashed, call charges will follow.
According to TRAI Chairman Nripendra Misra, Consultation paper will be issued. The paper will review the whole approach to the Interconnect Usage Charge (IUC) — a charge that an operator pays to another for terminating and carriage of a call — regime.
Currently, on every type of calls, the termination charges are flat. The regulator will review whether there can be different termination charges for different categories of call.

However, the low termination charges will suit the new licencees like Shyam-Sistema, Unitech, Datacom and Local Loop. This is because; outgoing calls are likely to be more than incoming calls.

Oddly, existing operators like Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance and Idea want high termination charges as the number of incoming calls terminating in their networks is higher than the number of calls going out.
Moreover, BSNL wishes to have higher termination charges for fixed line calls.

Government asks TRAI to review termination charges, may lead to lowered tariffs (India)

  • November 25th, 2008
  • 11:15 am

The Indian mobile telecom tariffs experience a downfall as the government asks TRAI to review the five-year old termination charges which are set to Rs.0.30/min for both fixed and mobile telephony. The charges of Rs.0.30/min for mobile telephony seems high especially for the new entrants in the market. DoT has asked TRAI to review the termination charges has been forwarded to TRAI. A TRAI official said the regulator has not been able to see the reason for reducing termination charges.

   

Government asks TRAI to review termination charges (India)

  • November 24th, 2008
  • 12:28 pm

Government has asked regulator TRAI to review the five-year old termination charge of 30 paise a minute per call for fixed and mobile telephony. Termination charge is the money given by an operator on whose network a call originates to the operator on whose network the call terminates. These charges were fixed five years ago and considered to be high, especially by the new players.
“Termination charges reduction reference has gone to TRAI. They have to recommend us what to do (whether to bring it down or not. TRAI is a statutory body it can’t be dictated on what to be done. It is being discussed in TRAI to look into the possibility of bringing down the termination charges),” Telecom Minister A Raja said.  According to TRAI official, the regulator has not been able to see the reason for reducing the termination charges. TRAI prescribed these charges on the basis of cost data submitted by various service providers for the years preceeding it.

Bouygues Telecom posts a subscriber base of 9.32Mn at Sept-end (France)

  • November 18th, 2008
  • 5:53 am

Bouygues posts a 10% year-on-year rise in Q3′08 from $10 billion to $11.13 billion driven by strong growth in its construction and real-estate activities, and a steady performance from its telecoms arm. Bouygues Telecom revenues for Q3′08 rose by 5.3% to $1.63 billion from $1.55 billion since Q3′07. The French operator reports a 6.5% increase in sales for the period of January to September’08 to $4.73 billion. Sales from network services rose by 5.1% despite an 8% cut in call termination charges and the regulation of roaming charges.
The subscriber base totalled to 9.327 million mobile subscribers.