From today onwards Reliance Jio has started charging its customers  6 paise per minute for voice calls made to users of another telecom network. This would have no doubt come as a surprise for Jio subscribers who have been enjoying free voice calls so far. Jio, which entered the Indian telecom market with a bang a few years ago and created a major tariff war ever since said on Wednesday that it was ‘compelled’ to charge its users 6 paise/minute.
Jio is doing this to recover the 6 paise/minute IUC (Interconnect Usage Charge) that the company pays other telcos to use their network during calls. Customers will have to pay IUC charges until TRAI brings the fee down to zero, which is expected to happen on January 1, 2020. The new regulation by Jio is already in effect, so here’s a quick 10-point explainer of what this means to you and what other telecom networks are saying.
Jio is to recover 6 paise/minute (Interconnect Usage Charge) that the company pays other telcos to use their network during calls. However, the customer will have to pay IUC charges until TRAI brings the fee down to zero, which is expected to happen on 1^st January 2020.
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