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Thursday, Apr 06, 2006
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Telecommunications TRAI shoots down COAI plea to review past decisions Thomas K Thomas
New Delhi , April 5 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has shot down a request from the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) to review some of the decisions taken by the regulator under Mr Pradip Baijal. A COAI delegation had made a fresh presentation to the new TRAI Chairman, Mr Nripendra Misra, seeking a review on the regulator's earlier decisions including those on lifetime validity schemes, number portability, termination charges, and differential tariffs. According to sources, the TRAI Chairman took a position of moving forward rather than looking back at decisions taken by the earlier board. The COAI had met the regulator on March 30 and suggested a higher mobile termination charge for operators on incoming calls.It said that the termination charges in other countries were much higher, which placed Indian operators at a disadvantage. However, the TRAI said that it was unfair to increase the termination rates since all tariffs had moved to a cost-based system.The COAI also suggested revoking TRAI's earlier decision barring cellular operators offering lifetime validity plans from changing the tariff as long as the operators remained in business. The TRAI, however, took the view that operators needed to be more transparent with customers while offering tariffs. TRAI said that the differential tariff by cellular operators was negating the Government's decision to merge the Chennai, Kolkata, and Mumbai circles with respective States.
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