TRAI lowers port fee, payable by operators for terminating calls

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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has revised the port fee payable by one operator to the other for terminating calls.

TRAI has fixed ceiling rates of Rs 10,000 a year for the fixed line telephone calls and at Rs 4,000 for the mobile services. Currently, operators pay over Rs 39,000 per port annually for establishing interconnection between two networks.

The port charges were initially determined by TRAI in 1999 and modified by issuing ?The Telecommunication Interconnection (Port Charges) Regulation 2001? in December 2001. These charges were subsequently revised in February 2007.

The revised charges will be implemented from October 1, 2012.