Free roaming services starts before October: Kapil Sibal

Now there is good news for all the mobile phone users who get upset while using their mobile phones in roaming. Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said that government will try to start national free roaming service before October of this year. He informed that TRAI has floated a consultation paper on it (national free roaming). So when TRAI’s recommendations come, we will try to start free roaming before October. 

In December, TRAI had floated a pre-consultation paper seeking inputs from stakeholders on tariff for national roaming services. It sought views of stakeholders on aspects of national roaming services like the cost components of call rates to be considered, the manner of cost recovery in case incoming calls are to be made free, the tariff for video calls and SMS while roaming and need for permitting special tariff vouchers for roaming customers. At present, telecom operators have to pay various charges like termination charge, interconnect charges, for completing call of their customers on to other networks which get added to the final cost of the call for the customer.

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