Telecom regulator Trai has floated a consultation paper to bring down the rates of mobile calls and SMSs that are currently charged from a customer on availing roaming facility.
Among various options to reduce or remove additional cost burden on roaming customers, Trai has proposed a new norm -- Home Price Rule -- wherein a mobile subscriber should be charged the same amount that he pays when he is not roaming.
As per Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, mobile phone customers on roaming are generally charged Re 1 for outgoing local call, Rs 1.5 for outgoing STD call and Re 1 for incoming call on per minute basis. For each outgoing SMS, customers are generally charged Rs 1.5.
On the other hand, when customer is not roaming an outgoing local call costs him/her around 72 paise, outgoing STD call 90 paise, each local SMS Re 1 and STD SMS in range of Rs 1.5 to Rs 3.45, according to Trai.
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