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BSNL cuts ISD rates to Lanka, Middle East

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's 5.8 crore telecom service subscribers stand to benefit as the PSU announced a 40 per cent reduction in the ISD rates to Sri Lanka and a 20 per cent cut to Middle East countries from next month.

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Updated : Sep 14, 2017, 03:47 PM IST

NEW DELHI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's 5.8 crore telecom service subscribers stand to benefit as the PSU announced a 40 per cent reduction in the ISD rates to Sri Lanka and a 20 per cent cut to Middle East countries from next month.

From October 1, a BSNL subscriber will have to pay Rs 7.20 a minute for a 10 second pulse rate from the current Rs 12 a minute, the company said, adding the revised rates would apply to all calls from fixed line, mobile, WLL(M) as well as PCOs and Trunk Calls.

For Middle East countries like Kuwait, Baharin, UAE, Oman, Qatar, the rates have been reduced from Rs 12 a minute to Rs 9.6 a minute and the pulse rate has been increased from the six seconds to 7.5 seconds.

"The sector of Sri Lanka and Middle East countries have he maximum call traffic from India. The tariffs have been educed to offer customers a good choice and to be ahead of competition", the company said.

Private cellular operators currently offer ISD rates of Rs 9.99 a minute to Middle East with some of the operators offering Rs 8 a minute to the same destination under some of their plans. But none them offer an unifies package of same rate for calls from fixed lines, mobile and WLL phones.

BSNL's latest rate cut is likely to start another round of price war in the ISD segment on this busy traffic route of Middle East where a sizable Indian population stays.

BSNL has about 3.8 crore fixed line subscribers and a little over two crore mobile subscribers.

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