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Uniform calling rate launch deferred

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's much-awaited plan to launch a countrywide uniform calling rate that would have reduced STD rates by 70 per cent from Republic Day was called off due to technical and legal difficulties.

A last-ditch meeting on Wednesday did not agree on announcing the tariff without adequate preparation and indications are that this plan might be implemented around March.

Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran had backed the uniform call rate plan to boost telecom penetration by clearing aberrations in the policy.

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