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BSNL's STD at Re 1, local 60p
Uniform tariffs across India has not been announced yet but BSNL has unveiled mobile STD rate of Re 1 and local call rate at 60 paise a minute.
Uniform tariffs across India has not been announced yet but sate-run PSU BSNL 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 an activation one time charge of Rs 200, officials of the PSU 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 under a Rs 60 top-up card.
Reliance Infocomm yesterday offered free outgoing calls worth up to Rs 2,000 on some of its new handsets along with lower local and STD call charges.
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.
