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COAI welcomes TRAI's roaming order

National roaming service:COAI is pleased with TRAI order

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Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo
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NEW DELHI: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has welcomed TRAI's order on national roaming service, which kept differential rates between local, roaming calls and messaging rates.

In a statement, Rajan S Mathews , Director General of COAI, said, “TRAI has recognized there are long distance costs that need to be covered and hence the need for differential tariffs."

However, the industry body said that "TRAI has not allowed for a longer time for market forces to play out. Given the extreme nature of competition in Indian markets and the low price points that already exist, a light touch regulatory approach that relied more on market forces would have been desirable. It is too early to compute the impact on industry revenues at present.”

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