Per second plan optional: Trai to vet new schemes

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will examine the recently launched low-tariff schemes of the mobile operators to ensure that the schemes do not have hidden charges that would dupe consumers. The tariff war sparked off by these schemes and reports of a seconds-based billing plan by the regulator had led to a crash in telecom shares this week.

Upon his return from Geneva from an international conference on Thursday, Trai chairman JS Sarma clarified that he does not intend to make operators shift form the current per minute pulse rate billing system to a per second system. An interpretation along these lines of his statement in Geneva earlier this week had appeared in a section of the media.

The Trai chairman said he would come out with a consultation paper to examine the feasibility

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