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Airtel, Vodafone, Idea cut national roaming tariffs

Vodafone reduces national roaming tariffs

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NEW DELHI: Country’s top telcos Airtel, Vodafone and Idea have reduced their national roaming tariffs, effective May 1.

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Airtel has reduced outgoing local SMS rate by up to 75%, inter-circle SMS rate by up to 74%, incoming call rates by up to 40%, outgoing inter-circle call rates by up to 23% and outgoing local call rates by up to 20%.

Vodafone customers will now pay less for both local and STD calls on national roaming. 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, a statement said.

For incoming calls on roaming, a ceiling of 45 paise/minute has been fixed from the earlier 75 paise/minute.

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Idea will charge incoming calls at 45 paise/minute, while roaming anywhere in India, a company statement said.

Outgoing local call rates have also been reduced by 20% and STD call rates by 23%.

Local SMS will now cost 25 paise and STD SMS 38 paise, on roaming nationally.

The move comes on the back of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) cutting ceiling tariffs for national roaming calls and text messages and mandating operators to bring the changes into effect from May 1, 2015.

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