Virgin Mobile India, a brand franchisee association between Virgin Mobile Group and Tata Teleservices, today reduced its STD and local call rates on pre-paid services to 50 paisa per minute, amid the waging price wars.

According to the revised prices, TTSL-Virgin customers can call any number, mobile or landline, across networks at only 50 paise per minute after the initial three minutes of the day.

“Against the industry norm of STD tariff of Re 1 per minute at an additional monthly commitment, new 50 Paise STD- local will provide the lowest all-India STD base tariff offer with no extra cost,” said Virgin Mobile India CEO M A Madhusudan.

The three minutes of a STD call each day would cost Rs 1.50 paise per minute while for rest of the day the long distance tariff would drop to just 50 paise per minute for maximum up to 30 minutes.

Similarly, for local calls the first three minutes of the day would be at Re 1 per minute, then for the rest of the day the tariff would be 50 paise a minute.