Your mobile roaming charges will come down from May 1

[Thakur]

Telecom regulator TRAI has reduced ceiling tariffs for national roaming calls and SMS with effect from May 1, 2015, which will bring down the roaming tariffs for consumers.

While on roaming, for outgoing local calls, a ceiling of 80 paise/ minute has been fixed from Re 1 a minute earlier and Rs 1.15 per minute from Rs 1.5 a minute for STD calls.

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For incoming calls on roaming, a ceiling of 45 paise per minute has been fixed from earlier 75 paise charged earlier and 25 paise or a local SMS compared to Rs 1 before and 38 paise for STD SMS from Rs 1.50 earlier, TRAI said.

It has also mandated telecom service providers (TSPs) to offer a special roaming tariff plan.

Tariffs for national roaming services were last revised in 2013. It had earlier said the new tariff regime shall be subject to review after a year. A draft telecommunication tariff (60 the Amendment) order, 2015 was issued on February 2 this year for comments of the stakeholders.  After examining the comments of the stakeholders, TRAI has revised the ceiling tariffs for voice calls and SMS while on national roaming.



http://wap.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/trai-reduces-ceiling-tariffs-for-roaming-calls-sms-115040900874_1.html

 

[jnkp2519]

Prices comes down, when there is competetion.

 

[Siva]

I thought the national portability is launching soon in which case, roaming becomes meaningless anyway. But this announcement now means, they are postponing that further.

 

[Dileep Kumar]

Good Share Bro

 

[shawl_who]

agree wid 'i like red' bro. There shud not be any roaming charges within a country :dodgy