In December, TRAI floated a pre-consultation paper seeking inputs from stakeholders on tariff for national roaming services. The government is expected to take a call on national free roaming after the regulator submits its recommendations
Telecom minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said the government will try to launch national free roaming for telecom customers before October this year.
“TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has floated a consultation paper on it (national free roaming). So when TRAI’s recommendations come and after that, we will try to start free roaming before October,” Sibal said on the sidelines of the launch of National Internet Registry (NIR).
In December, TRAI floated a pre-consultation 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 be 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 charges, interconnect charges, for completing call of their customers on to other networks which get added to the final cost of the call for the customer.
Sibal also launched the National Internet Registry (NIR), which will reduce the cost of processing IP addresses. NIR is entrusted with the task of coordinating IP address allocation with other Internet resource management function at national level in the country.
The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) had earlier endorsed the operations of NIR to National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI). NIXI was recognised by the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) in March last year. NIR has been named as Indian Registry for Internet Names and Numbers (IRINN).
IRINN, a division under NIXI, provides allocation and registration services of Internet Protocol Addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) and autonomous systems numbers to its affiliates to the Indian Internet communities.
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