Lowest rates drop further

India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI)  has lowered domestic call termination fees from 0.6 cents per minute to 0.4 cents per minute. This is the fee charged to a cellular carrier when a call terminates on someone else’s network within India. India already enjoys the lowest mobile calling rates of any major country and this should drive rates lower still.

TRAI was less generous with international callers however! Termination fees for call from overseases were actually raised to 0.8 cents per minute. At present, many experienced overseas callers to India use services such as Reliance India Call or Airtel’s competing service. These are typically significantly lower priced than using AT&T or other US-based services.  I am not a big fan of Voice over IP services such as Skype or the instant messengers.