The Telecom Commission– the highest decision making body of telecommunication department of Government of India- approved a scheme by which a customer of a particular service provider (SP) would be able to use calling card of any other SP to make long distance calls from his phone of the existing SP.
For example if a subscriber has presently a connection of BSNL, he will have to make long distance call through BSNL only and pay according to BSNL tariff. Under the new regime however if a BSNL customer finds Airtel plan attractive, he may purchase an Airtel prepaid long distance card for a specific period and use it with his BSNL fixed or mobile phone.
It is therefore obvious that this new scheme is going to trigger a new competition in the long distance segment of the telephony and is likely to bring down the long distance charges between 50 to 75% from the present tariff.
The standalone SPs like Verizone, AT&T etc can now offer attractive rates and the customers will be free to use their services much alike the system existing in the western countries.
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