The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a pre-consultation paper titled ‘Review of Tariff for National Roaming’, to undertake a review of the existing tariff framework for National Roaming Services. Through this paper, the Authority has invited comments from stakeholders on the tariff framework for National Roaming services till January 17, 2013, so as to enable the authority to release a detailed consultation paper in the future. TRAI stated that this paper seeks the stakeholder comments on various aspects of National roaming services like the cost components that have to be considered, recovery mechanism of these costs in case incoming calls are made free, tariffs for video calls and SMS while roaming and the need for allowing Special Tariff Vouchers for roaming subscribers among others. Some of the issues raised in the pre-consultation paper include: - Whether the existing cost based approach for determining national roaming tariffs should continue. The cost components that should be included while formulating these charges. The other alternative methodologies which can be considered to determine the national roaming tariff. - How to recover costs if incoming calls are made free on roaming and will the removal of incoming call charges increase the overall call traffic in the country - In the current scenario, the originating access provider i.e. the network from where the call originates, pays the terminating access provider a specific mobile termination charge for terminating the call on its network. The originating access provider later recovers this termination charge from its subscribers while keeping…
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