Reliance Jio will now charge its customers 6 paise per minute for mobile voice calls made to other operators to recover the interconnect usage charge (IUC) of, The Economic Times reported. These charges will be effective from today only until the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India reduces these IUC charges to zero. What does this mean for Jio customers? Jio customers making off-net voice calls to other operators will be charged the current IUC rate of 6 paise/minute. All Jio customers who wish to make calls to other operators' numbers will have to buy additional top-up vouchers of Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 50 and Rs 100. However, the customers will be compensated with equivalent data for the value of voucher and post-paid customers will be billed at 6 paise per minute for off-net outgoing calls with an increase in free data entitlement. The charge will not be applicable to: All Jio-Jio calls All incoming calls Jio-to-landline calls Call made using WhatsApp or Face Time and similar platforms What is Interconnect Usage Charge? It is the price paid by one mobile telecom operator to another when its customers make outgoing mobile calls to the other operator’s customers. These charges are fixed by TRAI. Do Airtel and Vodafone charge IUC from customers? No. However, all telecom operators pay IUC charges to other operators for outgoing calls and similarly, they receive the amount from other operators for incoming calls. Why did this happen? The move comes after the TRAI released a consultation paper in…
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