Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) announced revised call charges for its fixed line CDMA packages on Friday, the same day the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead to the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) to proceed with its floor price for mobile and fixed line calls.
Earlier Airtel had objected to the new mobile call rates of a minimum Rs. 1 to Rs. 2 per minute and filed a petition in the Supreme Court, saying the new rates were a disadvantage to the consumer.
The new tariff plan for SLT's prepaid CDMA offering specifies that any outgoing call within the SLT network will now be Rs. 1, while outgoing calls to any other network are Rs. 2. On the other hand, postpaid connections within the SLT network will now be priced at Rs. 1.25 per minute for the first five minutes and will be reduced to Rs. 1 per minute from the sixth minute onwards. Outgoing calls to other networks will be billed at Rs. 2.25 per minute for the first five minutes followed by a charge of Rs. 2 from the sixth minute onwards.
It was also stated that these prices would be available 24 hours a day and that, while no start-up call fees would be charged, prepaid connections were privy to a daily rental of Rs. 3 and postpaid to a monthly rental of Rs. 299. Also, calls would be billed on a per minute basis. Additionally, it was also noted that all charges excluded Government taxes, while also being only applicable to new connections.
However, SLT's announcement also indicated that existing CDMA customers were also allowed to migrate to these new packages. Also noted was that this follows the country's Telecommunication Regulatory Commission ruling that all telecoms operators meet a stipulated minimum floor price. |
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