Major Telecom Providers slash Roaming rates as per TRAI guidelines

Starting today, roaming rates are getting cheaper with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) reducing ceiling tariffs for national roaming and directing telecom companies to offer special roaming tariff plan.

TRAI has earlier issued a Draft Telecommunication Tariff (60th Amendment) Order, 2015 for comments of the stakeholders. After examining the comments of the stakeholders and further analysis, the Authority revised the ceiling tariffs for voice calls and SMS while on national roaming.

Effective from May 1st, major telecom providers have started circulating the new revised rates that customers are going to enjoy on national roaming. Tata Docomo has announced the revised roaming tariffs according to which customers will now pay less for both local and STD calls on National Roaming. On roaming, for all outgoing local calls, now the customer has to pay 80 paise/minute from the earlier Rs 1/min, and for STD calls it is Rs 1.15/min from earlier Rs 1.5/min. For incoming calls on roaming, the customer will be charged 45 paise/minute from the earlier 75 paise/minute.?

 In addition, customers will now pay less for both local and STD SMSs on National Roaming. On roaming, for all local SMS, a customer will be charged 25 paise from the earlier Re 1/min, and for national SMS it is 38 paise from earlier Rs 1.5.

Vodafone India too on its part has announced the revised roaming tariffs. On roaming, for all outgoing local calls, a ceiling of 80 paise/minute has been fixed from the earlier Rs 1/min, and for STD calls it is Rs 1.15/min from earlier Rs 1.5/min. For incoming calls on roaming, a ceiling of 45 paise/minute has been fixed from the earlier 75 paise/minute.

Vodafone Customers will also now pay up to 75% less for texts while on roaming. For a local text, it is 25 paise compared to Rs 1 before; and for STD texts,38 paise from Rs 1.50 earlier, in accordance with the Telecom Regulator Authority of India ...See more

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