Now Delhi & Mumbai are local

In a major breakthrough MTNL today announced 40p calls per minute between Delhi and Mumbai down from earlier Rs. 1.90 per minute. This announcment had came just after launching its NLD services between the cities. MTNL has got its NLD carrier licence after opening up of NLD/ILD regime. The above reduced tarrif will come in effect from 1st of June. Now MTNL subscribers of Delhi & Mumbai will be able to make calls at Rs. 1.20 per three minutes, earlier they were a paying Rs. 5.70 per min. for the same call. MTNL has made a deal with VSNL in which VSNL will lease a line to MTNL to provide NLD calls between the cities. VSNL has offered MTNL 3p as carrier charge for calls.Earlier MTNL was paying hefty charges of 65p for carrier line to BSNL for calls between the cities. Currently MTNL has got no NLD infrastructure of its own and it uses BSNL's network for the same. However, MTNL will soon build its own network between cities but in phased manner.
Mr Maran, Communications and Information Technology Minister, lauded the initiative of MTNL and expressed confidence that more and more competition will lead to further lowering of bandwidth prices, which will make IT and ITeS industry more competitive.
This kind of a plan will definetly make other operators to offer lower tarrif calls between major cities. And in the end all these will benefit us, the users.