@TRAI cuts interconnect charges to 6 p/minute from Oct 1; #Jio gains, incumbents lose

[IndianMascot]

India’s telecom regulator more than halved the interconnect usage charge (IUC) from October 1 and said the fee will be scrapped from 2020, in a move that it said would benefit consumers.

The decision saw the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) coming down on the side of new entrant Reliance Jio Infocomm, while rejecting the arguments made by older telcos Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular.

IUC has been reduced to 6 paise a minute from 14 paise a minute and to zero starting January 1, 2020, based on the view that costs incurred by operators will drop.

India’s incumbent top telcos said they will go to court against the step. IUC is paid by the mobile operator on whose network the call originates to the network where it terminates.


http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ins-incumbents-lose/articleshow/60753011.cms?

 

[Devesh]

Looks like free call will continue till life ends

 

[IndianMascot]

yep and other operators will cry more.

 

[DashMajor]

New charges will be applied wef January 1st 2020.

 

[IndianMascot]

New charges will be applied wef January 1st 2020.

6 paise has been implemented today itself. Zero will be implemented from 1st Jan 2020


IUC has been reduced to 6 paise a minute from 14 paise a minute and to zero starting January 1, 2020, based on the view that costs incurred by operators will drop.

 

[Aviral Sangal]

6p from 1st October.
It's not loss for avoid group. Since at this stage small players have made the exit so call flow is almost symmetrical. Gains for jio since its outgoing to avoid is more than incoming.

 

[IndianMascot]

yeah. 1st Oct. thanks for clarifying.