  After slashing the termination charges. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Tuesday also slashed carriage charges to 35 paise per minute from 65 paise earlier, which telecom operators need to pay providers of long-distance telephony for carrying STD calls.
The ceiling of 65 paise for carriage charge was fixed in 2006.
Telecom operators pay domestic carriage charge when their customers make an STD call on other network, using network of National Long Distance operators (NLDOs).
In 2017-18, the regulator will review these charges as present networks are transforming into Internet-based networks which is expected change the carriage cost structure. |