No Roaming From October 2013

No Roaming From October 2013

TELECOM Minister Kapil Sibbal Thursday said the Government will try to start national free
roaming for customers before October this year.

TRAI has floated a consultation paper on it (national free roaming). So when Trai's commendations come and alter that. we will try to start free roaming before October." Sihal told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of National Internet Registry (NIR) here. In December. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had floated a pre-consullation paper seeking inputs from stakeholders on tariff for national roaming services. It sought views of stakeholders on aspects of national roaming services like the cost components of call rates to be considered  the manner of cost recovery in case Incoming calls are to he made free, the tariff for video calls and SMS while roaming, need for permitting special tariff vouchers for roaming customers. At present, telecom operators have to pay various charges like termination charge, inter connect charges. for completing call of their customers on to other networks which get added to the final cost of the call for the customer.