Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Slash in port charges = Tariff cuts? Maybe!

No April fool gimmick this time. In a recent amendment, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has lowered port charges by 29% (inter-connectivity charges paid by private operators to connect to staterun BSNL and MTNL). From April 1, the revised port charges will be in the range of Rs.10,500 to Rs.39,000 instead of the current Rs.14,000 to Rs.55,000. TRAI is expecting that the operators will pass on the reduction in the charges to their subscribers in terms of lower national and international call rates. However, as per reports, the levy is too less to pass on for operators, which have recently hit by a slash in the roaming charges they can set.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

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