Uniform tariffs across India has not been announced yet, but Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Monday unveiled mobile STD rate of Re 1 and local call rate at 60 paise a minute with a monthly fixed charge of Rs 999 for its post-paid users for a 15 second pulse rate.
The PSU has launched new plan for post-paid mobile service for a monthly fixed charge of Rs 999 bundling with a Cellone Axia A108 handset where customers will get free calls worth Rs 700.
The plan has a registration charge in Rs 500 and a one-time activation charge of Rs 200, officials of the public sector telecom unit said.
Under this plan, call charges for local calls within BSNL's own network both -- mobile-to-mobile and mobile-to-fixed is 60 paise while to other network it is Re 1 a minute.
For STD (Inter Circle), the call charges are Re 1 a minute within its own network for calls to both its mobile and fixed networks while to other networks it is Rs 1.60 a minute.
Since the handset is a Microsoft Windows CC.Net OS phone it has all advanced features like GPRS and MMS services for data and video downloads.
Cellular operator Hutch offers mobile STD at Rs 1.32 a minute on a Rs 60 top-up card.
Reliance Infocomm on Sunday offered free outgoing calls worth up to Rs 2,000 on some of its new handsets along with lower local and STD call charges.
On buying a handset for Rs 2,700, a subscriber will get Rs 2,000 worth talktime for outgoing calls along with 2,000 local short messages (SMS) free. However, both these facilities had to be used within a period of nine months and there should be a minimum recharge of Rs 149 after two months from the date of subscription.
This is the third time in the last three weeks that Reliance has announced a new tariff plan. Earlier announcements included outstation calls for Re 1 and flexible tariffs on fixed wireless phones.
The tariffs would be 99 paise a minute for a local call from Reliance to Reliance phone and Rs 1.79 from Reliance to any other mobile. STD rate has been fixed at Rs 1.79 from Reliance to Reliance anywhere in the country and Rs 2.49 from Reliance to other phones.
Prior to this, Reliance Infocomm had introduced a recharge voucher offering its pre-paid cellular customers a 15 paise-per-minute for calls to Reliance India Mobile phones within the circle. Calls to Reliance fixed phones would cost 40 paise and all other mobile phones will cost 40 paise as per the new scheme.
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