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TRAI keeps its word, slashes national roaming charges ceiling

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has reduced the ceiling tariffs for national roaming calls and SMSes and has mandated telcos to offer a special roaming tariff plan to pre-paid and post-paid subscribers. In this special roaming tariff plan, incoming voice calls will be free after and if there is a payment of fixed charge. Changes will come into effect from 1 May 2015. New tariffs According to the new ceiling tariffs, while on national roaming, outgoing local calls will cost 80 paise/minute as opposed to the Re 1 previously, outgoing inter-circle voice calls will cost Rs 1.15/minute against the previous Rs 1.50, incoming voice calls will cost 45 paise against 75 paise previously, outgoing SMS will cost 25 paise/message as opposed to Re 1 previously and outgoing inter-circle SMS will cost 38 paise as opposed to the previous Rs 1.50. Earlier in March, the TRAI had proposed to slash roaming call and message charges for telcos by 30% and 80% respectively on maximum rates charged for the above in the Draft Telecommunication Tariff (Sixtieth Amendment) Order, 2015. The previous proposition was: Outgoing call charges while on roaming have to come down to 65 paise per minute from the previous 1 rupee while STD calling during roaming has to be reduced from Rs 1.50 to Re 1 per minute. Incoming calls on roaming will be restricted to 45 paise per minute as compared to 75 paise currently, and SMSing will get cheaper from Rs 1.50 rupees to 25 paise…

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