Per Second Billing Compulsory for Mobile Operators: TRAI

Telecom Regulatory Authority India (TRAI) announced its new rule as a mandatory thing for all the telecom network operators. As per this rule, all the operators should give per second billing option to customers. When TATA DOCOMO started GSM Services in India, they started announcing "Per second billing" option which attracted the Indian people and they became one among the top in the subscriber base with in few months from launch and they are doing very well in India. Just to compete with them other operators also started following the same “Per second billing" option.

TRAI said that all the operators should have up to 25 different tariff plans in which one should be "Per second billing" and it allows the operators to charge up to 4 times the existing tariff for premium services which includes calls and messages sent to TV & Radio contests etc. "The authority does not intend to restrict the growth of services involving content nor to curb the revenue streams available for the service providers," TRAI said.