TRAI suggests zero termination charge in 3 yrs

The TRAI has suggested that the levy proposed for terminating a mobile call on a network to be done away with effect from 2014.The proposal comes as part of its affidavit filed before the Supreme Court. 

The affidavit comes in response to the Supreme Court's direction asking the regulator to submit various models for calculating the termination charge. The regulator had approached the apex court after the Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate (TDSAT) set aside its IUC regulations of November 2009 as a host of operators had opposed them. 

Earlier, the SC had asked Trai to compute the different termination charges when the costs incurred by operators were accounted for and when they weren't. While Trai has calculated it using various methodologies, it has proposed that the long-term incremental cost model, which has calculated 10 paisa as the charge, should be used with effect from January next year and within three years the charge should be altogether abolished. 

Trai has argued that in the presence of the termination charge, the operator on whose network the call originates has no choice but to pay the operator on whose network the call ends.

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