All outgoing calls to cost the same

KOLKATA: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) plans to bar full-mobility players of every shade, be it GSM or CDMA-based, from fixing any exclusive set of outgoing tariffs within their own networks.


They will be required to offer the same outgoing rate to terminate calls on rival full-mobility networks within the realm of unified licences. (Is this move on the part of Trai fair?)

That means the likes of Bharti, Hutch, Reliance, Tata-Indicom, BSNL-CellOne or MTNL will not be allowed to discriminate and fix exclusive outgoing mobile tariffs for calls within their home networks.
Once a full-mobility player decides on a particular outgoing tariff, it will have to offer the same rate to terminate all outbound call traffic to any rival full-mobility network.
For instance, a Hutch-to-Hutch outgoing rate would have to be the same as Hutch-to-Bharti or Hutch-to-Reliance or a Hutch-to-Tata Indicom, since Hutchison, Bharti, Reliance and Tata Indicom all happen to be full-mobility players in the context of unified licencing.
In the regime of unified access licences, Trai sees “full-mobility as a separate service category, regardless of whether it is GSM or CDMA-based”.
 

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