Looks Like everyone is amused with the news that Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is planning to make per second billing option mandatory. JS Sarma, Chairman, Trai said, “We are looking at the possibility of making service providers offer to consumers per second pulse as a mandatory option to be provided. Hopefully, in a month or a month-and-a-half we might like to come out with a consultation paper.”
On outside it looks cool plan with 1 paise per second that is 10 seconds you call you pay 10 paise. 30 seconds you call you pay 30 paise ….
But the fact is most of us enjoy 30 paise per call.. (i got that plan) and the Mobile service provider actually gives me 1750 calls free (1 call billed at 1 minute)
Now if it is going to be 1 paise per second it will turn out to be 60 paise per minute for me. and i dont know how they will calculate the 1750 free calls i have every month.
And i see a very good chance of the charge hike in near future. when the LifeLong prepaids were started they promised we can keep the sim alive at a recharge of Rs 10 every 6 months .. and now the rate is Rs 200 every 6 months to keep you LifeLong Prepaid sim alive … that is a hike of 2000% just in a span of 2 years…
Even a slight hike in per second billing ie f they make it 2 paise per second that will just make the cost of calling double than what is existing now. means you lose your money more than what you may spend for a per minute plan…
I don’t make a phone call just for a 20 seconds. most of the calls range more than 30 seconds…,very rarely i stop a call within 20 seconds. …. and i have observed the same for 99% of my friends..
Friends there is a hidden ghost behind the Per second Billing. please don’t accept it
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I used to have the old BPL one second billing. They gave me 16 hrs of free calls every month and I usually stayed in that time limit. But the rent was pretty high at 500 rs.
still was worth it.
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Ranjith
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:39 PM
me too have the 5 year old BPL sim with 1 second billing.. luckily i had one year validity also… so it was just 899 per year for the first 2 years and the the rates were 500/yr is i remember right
i still have that number with me…
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This money sucking ghost looks too greedy and peeping at our pockets.
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I don’t see how discussing about the 1750 Free calls is being discussed, isn’t the real issue that what happens if they raise the call rates to 2p/sec tomorrow?
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Ranjith
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October 8th, 2009 at 8:40 PM
yeah real issue is when they hike 1 paise/ sec to 2 paise per sec.
issue is also about how they will be tracking my 1750 free calls if they change to per second billing.
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TRAI is a bastard organization meant to create havoc among the Service Providers & customers and keep BSNL in the green all along.
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Only this week I switched to Tata Docomo from Idea I-card and I have begun to see the ghost
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In kerala all companies have started per second billing. But Airtel and idea are charging 1.2p /sec to other networks.
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Ranjith
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October 31st, 2009 at 9:40 PM
The Companies have figured out per second billing as the easiest way to make huge profit… 1.2 p/sec easy justifies that.. the day they make it 2 p/sec isn’t far away…
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