'An added burden on common man'
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Sat Jan 25 10:45:29 2003
Name:rama krishna
Email:narsipatnam@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:still tariff is very high in fixed lines and internet tariff
is high in villages in andhara. because telecom line tariff is high.
Sat Jan 25 10:45:56 2003
Name:K.A.K.PILLAI
Email:kakpillai2001@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:This is not the right time for revising rate. As such rent
per month is Rs.250/- on the higher side. Further existance of BSNL is
under threat by numerous other Parties and hence it is better not to
disturb the rate now.
Sat Jan 25 10:47:19 2003
Name:sriram
Email:tabac@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:thats just wonderful- why not just break into our house and
loot outright...why go thru this roundabout way?
Sat Jan 25 10:47:27 2003
Name:PUSPAMITRA PRUSTY
Email:puspamitra@tata-ryerson.com
Your Views:s: Well, hike in Rental and call charges is completely
unjustfied, but there should be interconnection charges made from
fixed-line operators to the private cellular operators.As telephone
nowdays is a basic necessity, low rental and call charges will ensure
that public can afford telephone easily.At the same time those who make
calls to cellurar line should pay for the connection charges.
Interconnection charges for calls terminating at fixed line operators
should be more as compared to tht payable by fixed line operators incase
of calls terminating at cellular operators.WLL users should also pay
interconnection charges for calls routed through fixed line operators
teminating at cellular operators.There should be level playing field
where every one is on the same platform.This will foster competetion and
will ultimately be beneficial for end-users.This is very important
keeping in mind huge FDI flowing in to this sector in india.
Sat Jan 25 10:48:02 2003
Name:PUSPAMITRA PRUSTY
Email:puspamitra@tata-ryerson.com
Your Views:s: Well, hike in Rental and call charges is completely
unjustfied, but there should be interconnection charges made from
fixed-line operators to the private cellular operators.As telephone
nowdays is a basic necessity, low rental and call charges will ensure
that public can afford telephone easily.At the same time those who make
calls to cellurar line should pay for the connection charges.
Interconnection charges for calls terminating at fixed line operators
should be more as compared to tht payable by fixed line operators incase
of calls terminating at cellular operators.WLL users should also pay
interconnection charges for calls routed through fixed line operators
teminating at cellular operators.There should be level playing field
where every one is on the same platform.This will foster competetion and
will ultimately be beneficial for end-users.This is very important
keeping in mind huge FDI flowing in to this sector in india.
Sat Jan 25 10:49:05 2003
Name:MP
Email:menghraj@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:NO way TRAI has to have very good reasons to increase tarif
for fixed line telephones as it is already costly compared to other
countries where all local call r free grow up TRAI people !
Sat Jan 25 10:49:37 2003
Name:Abhay
Email:abhaykant@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:NO.
Sat Jan 25 10:49:59 2003
Name:Sunil Sharma
Email:sharma@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:THE BASIC COST OF FIXED LINE SHOULD BE MOST MINIMAL AS
POSSIBLE TO THE COMMON MAN. ON THE OTHER HAND, PEOPLE WHO MAKE
LONGDISTANCE CALLS SHOULD FOOT THE COST OF THEIR CALLS- THE FARTHEST, OR
LONGEST DURATION, THEY CALL, THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT SERVICE. IT IS
ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS TO HIKE THE COMMON MAN BASIC COSTS INCL OWNING A
PHONE TO OFFSET THE RICH PEOPLE CALLING LONG DISTANCE-MOST RIDICULOUS
/ABSURD..
Sat Jan 25 10:50:11 2003
Name:VIJAY SHETTY
Email:vijay_s22@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:No rent for fixed line phones should not be increased as its
the present charge of Rs 250 per month is on the higher side and add to
that if the pulse rate is reduced to 90 minutes the common man will be
doomed this wiil result in large scale surender of fixed phone lines and
net net wiil be loss to the fixed line operators also
Sat Jan 25 10:50:29 2003
Name:SURYA VARA PRASAD
Email:suryap2000@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Now a days the fixed-line waitage is going down because of
Mobitel, and cells. If thease charges are increased what ever the number
of connections BSNL is having is going to come down. Now a days all are
using the Cell, and Mobitel not only in towns but also in villages. So
they have to thing over it and what ever decision taken by the
government or BSNL, it will not effect the middle class people. Now a
days the middle class people are needadly wanted the phone. If the
charges are increased it is the burden for the middle class people.
Sat Jan 25 10:50:30 2003
Name:J.George Vincent
Email:josephgeorgevincent@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Actually when the other mobile operators and the WLL
operators are competing with one another for the cheapest tariff for
their platform,the government owned fixed line should not think about
hike and they also go in line with the other operators to the cheapest
inorder to Satisfy thse common, middle class and lower middle class to
make use of the facilities they offer and its the duty of the government
to see that the welfare of the people in the field of communication
without any itch.
Sat Jan 25 10:51:03 2003
Name:Anil
Email:anil@anil.com
Your Views:s: all are talking about reducing the charges,and u people are
talking about a hike..? U wanna kill urself, and give ur way to private
companies... This is worst thing that ever heard...
Sat Jan 25 10:51:43 2003
Name:gopalakrishna
Email:b_s_ gopalakrishna@irco.com
Your Views:s:Phone tariffs should not be increased,& should be reduced if
feasible.Every indian must have phone connectivity to improve our
communication/economy by cutting down on travel need.
Sat Jan 25 10:53:53 2003
Name:Mathew m Samuel
Email:mathews@adanigroup.com
Your Views:s:The telephone rental and charge should not be hiked further.
It will definitely have adverse impact on the budget of commom man. I
hope BSNL won't hike the chrage and instead should reduce the monthly
rental, which is quite high now.
Sat Jan 25 10:54:02 2003
Name:Rinku
Email:vk_3@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:It is important to hike the tariffs in accordance with
providing value for money. Keeping the tariffs way too low is going to
kill any new investment in the sector. Indian cell market is still 10
million and the fixed line market is just 45 million. We want to make
sure that the huge untapped market is tapped but at the same time need
to make sure that companies make reasonable money out of their business.
If nobody is willing to invest, we will end with few companies which
will turn become monoplies since nobody will see much value in investing
in the market.
Sat Jan 25 10:54:19 2003
Name:viswanath
Email:viswa13@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s: Fixed line tariffs and installation cost were determined and
paid when the hardware components were very expensive.In todays
regimen,when hardware costs are relatively negligable,it would be
patently wrong to penalise the hapless captive fixed line users in a
face of between the fatcats of wireless technology phone service
providers. On the contrary, the advance of technology should be
leveraged to offer lower tariffs tofixed linephone subscribers. this
should not be seen as case of "oliver asking for more".
Sat Jan 25 10:54:49 2003
Name:Ashish
Email:ajanrielwala@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:I think the tariff should be reduced instead of
increading.You see countries like US and UAE, they have local calls free
upto a particular distance, or proabably only interstate charges are
levied.Rent is also low.I think this is already high, if not possible to
make local calls free,please dont increase the tariffs which are already
high.
Sat Jan 25 10:55:39 2003
Name:Babu.k
Email:babu43@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Never increase land line telephone charges, otherwise all
people surender the telephone.
Sat Jan 25 10:55:42 2003
Name:Mukesh
Email:tharali@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Is the government gone MAD? what tarrif hike? when everybody
is saying that the technology is getting cheaper how do u justify this
hike? OKAY so is it all to promote Reliance WLL. May be Reliance
prospers but the govt falls soon.
Sat Jan 25 10:56:14 2003
Name: Satish Nair
Email:Satishnair01@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:NO WAY!! What we want is unlimited usage at a reasonable
fixed rental.
Sat Jan 25 10:56:15 2003
Name:M.Jayachander
Email:mjchand@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s: The service,Different facility given by the Fixed line
operator is much much lesser then what cell,WILL opertor is providing so
as the rent and call charge. As per the government the Competition bring
down the cost of phone. so they should not hike the rent of fixed phone
lines. If the government hike the phone rent its like once again hitting
the middel class people. what they have done in the last budget.
Sat Jan 25 10:57:19 2003
Name:SURYA VARA PRASAD
Email:suryap2000@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Now a days the fixed-line waitage is going down because of
Mobitel, and cells. If thease charges are increased what ever the number
of connections BSNL is having is going to come down. Now a days all are
using the Cell, and Mobitel not only in towns but also in villages. So
they have to thing over it and what ever decision taken by the
government or BSNL, it will not effect the middle class people. Now a
days the middle class people are needadly wanted the phone. If the
charges are increased it is the burden for the middle class people. If
there is any wrong decision taken by BSNL it will effect their entire
companies growth.
Sat Jan 25 10:59:09 2003
Name:ajay kumar sarkar
Email:aks003@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:No it should not be increased .It should be lower so as to
make each person to make call at a very lower cost
Sat Jan 25 11:00:01 2003
Name:Srinivasa Raju
Email:srini97@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:I strongly feel that there shouldn't be any increase in call
and rental charges, if on cards they should also concentrate of giving
more value added services like free CLIP, call forwarding, call
diverting etc. However, marginally they could increase in STD charges
(>200 kms). BSNL to change over to state of the art technology cabling
and proper maintenance of exchanges.
Sat Jan 25 11:00:07 2003
Name:deepak magdum
Email:d_magdum@indiatimes.com
Your Views:s:I don't think there is any fall in the revenue for fixed line
operators as those using the mobile phones are also using their fixed
line ones as phone has become a basic necessity in our day to day
life.Ek din admi nahayega nahi lekin phone jarur karega. Infact the
telecom authority should reduce the currently charged monthly rent and
give more facility in free calls so as to servive in the current
competition. They should also emphasise in the service they provide to
the customers. Our working telephone lines mainly depends on the lineman
of the area. Mainly he should not make mischiefs with our telephone
lines such as purposely disconnecting the line and then asking for a
bribe just to start the connection. Inshort after sale service is
important.
Sat Jan 25 11:00:09 2003
Name:Manoj Sharma
Email:manoj_agam@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:As the most of the fixed -line users is middle class in
India, it won,t be affordable.
Sat Jan 25 11:00:41 2003
Name:B Nagarajan
Email:bnagaraj@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:In no way the TRAI can increase the normal Fixed Line charges
based on the pressure by Cell operators, since the Fixed lines are
mostly used by the Middle class and lower middle class and it is going
to affect these class people to a great extent. Where as the Cell phones
used by the Bussines class and Upper class people, can spent so much of
money to increase their comfortability and business. To give the
comfortness for the Private cell operators TRAI should not increase
basic need of the largely populated Middle class and cut down the
cushioning. TRAI can suggest Bsnl to redefine its Cell tariff to
competite with other private operator but not the Fixed Lines
Sat Jan 25 11:01:08 2003
Name:Snehal Patel
Email:patelsnehal@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:NO. Why do they have to increase the ates. Because as it is
the telephone compnaies are making huge profits. So why do they want to
increase the tariffs and burden the common man. Becuase landline have
become a neccesity and it should not be increased.
Sat Jan 25 11:01:59 2003
Name:Murali.A
Email:amurali@royalenfield.com
Your Views:s:In my view, there should be no tariff increase for fixed line
users, as they are the majority users.Infact they should be at half of
the cost , from what they are currently paying. Also the pulse rate for
a call should be changed from the current 180 seconds , to 15 seconds
(ie 15 paise for 15 seconds)..
Sat Jan 25 11:02:32 2003
Name:N. Saikrishnan
Email:stmepct@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:s:if trai conceeds to these demands it is possible that lakhs
of phones will be surrendered. its like killing the golden goose. the
fixed line operators should realise that only the lower middle & middle
class comprise of their maximum share of customers and they might not be
able to afford the increase.
Sat Jan 25 11:02:47 2003
Name:Aditya
Email:itsadi@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:no
Sat Jan 25 11:03:21 2003
Name:Baskaran Sankaran
Email:rudhbaskaran@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:It is being explained that the current move to increase the
tariffs is to offset the lose recurred by the reduction of ISD rates
last year. I wonder why the tariff is not based on the actual operating
cost (for example expenditure it takes for a phone company to transfer
the call from the caller to the called end). Look at the railways, which
calculates the operating cost first (amount needed to operate a
particular train in an area for one km) and uses this (among other
considerations incl. political) for deciding fares. But the current move
by TRAI penalises a section of public while charging lower tariff for
other section. What is needed is a scientific approach rather than such
half-baked policies. This increase might also affect cell phone and
internet users apart from the landline users.
Sat Jan 25 11:03:23 2003
Name:srinivas
Email:srini_varanasi@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:tariffs for fixed-line telephones should not be increased.
The Middle class and lower middle class customers are the most effected
onces. The only means of cheap communication they have is this.
Sat Jan 25 11:03:47 2003
Name:kiran s. ingole
Email:kiraningole@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:dera sir i am shoked when i heard that the tariff of
telephone is hike becouse when the moible price is gratually fall down
at that time telecom dept increase the price somethink is doutful
Sat Jan 25 11:04:52 2003
Name:jennifer alphonso
Email:jenalp@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:If the tariffs are increased then users will go in for cell
phones rather than land lines and the loss to MTNL will be quite
surprising.
Sat Jan 25 11:04:58 2003
Name:uqtadar nabeel
Email:iqtadar_49@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:if govt. increase rates of land phon,people will more depend
on cell phone. I think govt. should think more and more before
increasing the rates.
Sat Jan 25 11:05:00 2003
Name:J Sudhakar
Email:jrsudhakar@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:No not all. This will go against the spirit of telecom
liberali
Sation and penetration we are looking at
Sat Jan 25 11:05:26 2003
Name:Ananth
Email:ananth.j@lycos.com
Your Views:s:The main objective of making telecommunication field open to
private operators in India, was to have a decent competition between the
operators, reduce the monopoly of the state own companies and to give
the consumers a fair and dependable service at a low cost. Increase the
rentals and charges now, just for the sake of increasing revenue to the
operators is not justified. Those who feel they don't get revenues let
not be in the field. Those who can manage at a low return giving high
productivity and service remain. After all the fittest survive isn't it?
Ananth.
Sat Jan 25 11:06:07 2003
Name:devaki nandan
Email:aleiprocess@tatanova.com
Your Views:s:i thimk the TRAI is a bunch of jokers like our any other
Indian government organi
Sation without direction.i feel the cellular
companies are taking the public on a ride.they have wooed the foolish
crowd towards their offers with all the Jamela stuff of free incoming
and all that stuff and now they are going to burden the common man with
the additional money they want just to increase their profit margins and
keep them in high society standards.I feel the TRAI should step down and
never indulge in anything like rthis kind trying to fix rates and
tariffs because they donot stick to their word or commitment.I strongly
feel that the supreme court should interfere and once and for all decide
this is keeping in view the common man on the middle income group who
must have got a fixed line installed in his house just to avoid going to
the booth to make his call or only to keep in touch with his old parents
who live somewhere in the remote rural area of this GREAYT INDIAN SUB
CONTINENT. Please my dear political fellows stop this shit and start to
think of the common man and his needs.
Sat Jan 25 11:06:10 2003
Name:Pawan Talwar
Email:talwarpawan@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:No ! Not at all. Fixed tele lines are used by almost all
common middle class people, and it has now become a very much neccesity,
it is not a luxury item. In fact rate should be increased for the mobile
phones which are used by a little higher class people, they can afford
the rise but not the common man. The authorities should strictly not
increase, but on the contary they should think of reducing the rates as
in the case of mobile phones. They should not put this additional burden
on the common people.
Sat Jan 25 11:06:17 2003
Name:Binoy Sanya
Email:binoy_sanya@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:There is no justification for increasing tariffs.World over
privitiSation has benefited the consumer.In india, they seem to be
intent on benefiting the private sector and govt companies at the cost
of the consumer!!What exactly is the reason for increasing costs?So that
their company can boost their profits?Or make the consumer pay for their
inefficiencies? Tariffs should remain the same.Let the best company
survive. Then they get larger market. Stop this nonsense of increasing
tariffs at the drop of a hat.
Sat Jan 25 11:06:21 2003
Name:prasanna
Email:prasanna_isp@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:please hike the rates. atleast we will have less calls
coming, so less disturbance.
Sat Jan 25 11:06:27 2003
Name:Freeman
Email:freeman_rodrigues@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:No definately not? The pulse has to be reduced down to 30
sec. Also the free call should be increased
Sat Jan 25 11:06:32 2003
Name:Sameer Desai
Email:desai_sam@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:This decision is just ridiculous. Just to facilitate some
handful people who use cellular phones, TRAI is doing injustice by
hiking the charges of fixed lines, which is used by a large number of
people. Instead of giving some relief to the ordinary people by lowering
the rentals of fixed lines, TRAI is hiking the rentals, dropping the
pulse rate. There is no other word to describe the decision of TRAI but
INJUSTICE.
Sat Jan 25 11:06:42 2003
Name:kailash sharma
Email:kailashsharma_123@redifmail.com
Your Views:s:Instead of increasing the charges thru rentals or any other
means, the telecom authorities should decrease their rates to be staying
alive in competition. By reducing the charges they can also reach to the
new segment who still cannot afford the telephone connection. By
increasing the tariffs they are not going to gain anything on a long
term basis, also they can reduce their excess staff to increase their
revenues.
Sat Jan 25 11:06:46 2003
Name:Antony Sunil
Email:sunant2001@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:Average/middle class people mainly depends on fixed line
rather than mobile phone.these days , fixed line charges for corporation
is very high, even though some muncipality are gettign same fecility as
corporation in phone connection.Then what is the need for having higher
charges for corportaion peiple Trai should not increase fixed line
charges.
Sat Jan 25 11:07:10 2003
Name:shivakumar
Email:shiva6325@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:TARIFF SHOULD BE REDUCED ;MONTHLY RENTAL SHOULD BE REDUCED
THEN ONLY A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD CAN BE SETUP. COMMUNICATION SECTOR CAN
IMPROVE ONLY IF THERE IS REDUCTION IN THE FIXED LINE AND REDUCTION IN
TARIFF TO COMPETE WITH THE NEW PLAYERS IN THE MARKET.
Sat Jan 25 11:07:18 2003
Name:Mac A
Email:macal@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Never, infact it must be reduced. Mobile services are getting
cheaper n fixed land lines are more expensive. People will opt to give
up this service.
Sat Jan 25 11:08:09 2003
Name:Venkataramana Parvathaneni
Email:vparvathaneni@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Is Telephone again going to be a luxury service.
Sat Jan 25 11:08:32 2003
Name:ashish kawa
Email:ash_karwa@rediff.com
Your Views:s:Tariffs Should not be hiked in any case.
Sat Jan 25 11:09:05 2003
Name:Sunil Tulapurkar
Email:stulapurkar@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:It would be foolish if TRAI is going to ask more money from
basic telecom operators. Especially if the traffis of land line
telephones are increased it won't be any good as they know maximum calls
are made through land lines instead if they are going to increase the
traffis they should also try to issue some important quality control
points in the order it shouldn't happen that at the end of the day the
consumers are forced to pay for a bad service!
Sat Jan 25 11:09:17 2003
Name:gowrijagadeesan
Email:gowrijagadeesan@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:no. the tariffs should not be hiked,because many senior
citizens are not in need to use mobile.almost every house in rural and
urban areas have a telephone connection, thanks to the liberalised
policy of the telecom industry.ironicaly it will be the same people who
will be afftected by the hike in the tariff. gowri.
Sat Jan 25 11:09:46 2003
Name:Prashant S Waghe
Email:prashantw@steelnext.com
Your Views:s:Yes, Indeed the fixed lines rates need to be increased.
Rational rate will be Rs. 1/2 min call , which is\20 % increase from
current rate. This is needed , as in long term cross-subsidiSation of
local calls from long-distance call revenue will result in in-efficient
corporations. Also it des not make economic sense.
Sat Jan 25 11:09:51 2003
Name:Rajan
Email:rasusn@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:As far as monthly rental charge hike is concerned, it is
justified. But increasing call charges & slashing number of free calls,
it is never justified.
Sat Jan 25 11:10:11 2003
Name:Vijay Singh Sarupria
Email:vsarupria@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:Rental charges should not be hiked in any case they should
increase the STD charges which rich men can afford but they should also
think for poor citizens of India.
Sat Jan 25 11:10:41 2003
Name:Amol
Email:wethepeople@indiatimes.com
Your Views:s:Surely not!! Why should TRAI increase the fixed line rate?
Maybe, they want people to opt for reliance Indiamobile service or GSM
service. But this is unjustifiable. It seems TRAI has become the
COMMERCIAL AGENT for these mobile operators, protecting their interests.
Also it seems the Miinistry (MICT)is also biased with these people(with
the honorable minister present at the inauguration).
Sat Jan 25 11:10:55 2003
Name:Gopakumar R Nair
Email:gopaknair@rediff.com
Your Views:s:Its ridiculous.On one hand the government says they want to
provide phone in every house. by this what are they proving is it
possible for a common man to pay a rent more than 100 rs. India is going
backwards by doing this they should lower the rates and make more people
avail this facility. atleat keep the same rates and call duation. Phone
should not be seen as a luxury item. The govt should encourage the
people to use phone more by lowering the rates. In short i am of the
view that if India has to progress in this sector they should provide
basic telephony at a cheaper rate. Gopa
Sat Jan 25 11:10:55 2003
Name:Rajan
Email:rasusn@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:As far as monthly rental charge hike is concerned, it is
justified. But increasing call charges & slashing number of free calls,
it is never justified.
Sat Jan 25 11:10:59 2003
Name:mukesh
Email:billagio@vsnl.com
Your Views:s:Rent should not be hiked on fixed lines instead Free Calls
150 should be withdrawn that will increase in the revenue without hiking
Rent. All call should be made Re 1/- per call there should not be any
slabs. Any calls made to Mobile phones should be charged Re 2/- per
three min i.e. Dould to land line call and that extra Re 1/- should be
shared with Mobile operaters in agreed ratio. Summary of above
suggestions:- RENT : 250 per month. FREE CALLs : zero. CALL Rate: Re 1/=
per 3 min. single slab CALL to MOB : Re 2/= per 3 min extra Re 1/- Ratio
to share : 40% fixed line & 60% to Mob opert. In my opinion this has NO
BURDAN to subscriber in any way. MKV
Sat Jan 25 11:11:10 2003
Name:milind
Email:milindSatara@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:as the no of telephones per 1000 of population is very low
compared with most of other nations but increasing rapidly, a hike in
basic telecom terriffs will stall the growth. the telephone is no more a
luxury. it is a tool to communicate with the world, and conduct
business. just like road or rail network telephone network is very
important for the economy. it reduces the stress on other networks &
also keeps them running smoothly. insted of increasing teriffs to save
the telecom companies govt. should think of lowering the tax burdon on
the tel cos.
Sat Jan 25 11:11:48 2003
Name:Rajan
Email:rasusn@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:As far as monthly rental charge hike is concerned, it is
justified. But increasing call charges & slashing number of free calls,
it is never justified.
Sat Jan 25 11:12:26 2003
Name:Vinay Patil
Email:vinay-goa@sify.com
Your Views:s:Fixed line telephone as of today is the cheapest mode of
voice communications,increasing tariffs would bring a bad taste among
subscribers both new and old,with the size of india population one
should think twice whether increasing tariffs would benefit or
backfire?.Infact limited mobility would give a tough time ahead to Fixed
line telephones!so think twice and remeber all those underground cable
laid from so many years???
Sat Jan 25 11:12:35 2003
Name:Rajan
Email:rasusn@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:As far as monthly rental charge hike is concerned, it is
justified. But increasing call charges & slashing number of free calls,
it is never justified.
Sat Jan 25 11:12:36 2003
Name:onkar tarnekar
Email:onkartarnekar@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Increasing monthly rentals, call charges or adding the burdon
of interconnection charge on customer will not help fixed line
operaters. Any move like this will help WLL, mobile service providers.
And will hasten wiping out the concept of landline use. Concept of
landline as poor mans communication method will be wiped out. I think
this is the hidden agenda between mr pramod mahajan, and mobile
operaters to help each other by squezing commen landline users.
Sat Jan 25 11:12:36 2003
Name:mukesh
Email:billagio@vsnl.com
Your Views:s:Rent should not be hiked on fixed lines instead Free Calls
150 should be withdrawn that will increase in the revenue without hiking
Rent. All call should be made Re 1/- per call there should not be any
slabs. Any calls made to Mobile phones should be charged Re 2/- per
three min i.e. Dould to land line call and that extra Re 1/- should be
shared with Mobile operaters in agreed ratio. Summary of above
suggestions:- RENT : 250 per month. FREE CALLs : zero. CALL Rate: Re 1/=
per 3 min. single slab CALL to MOB : Re 2/= per 3 min extra Re 1/- Ratio
to share : 40% fixed line & 60% to Mob opert. In my opinion this has NO
BURDAN to subscriber in any way. MKV
Sat Jan 25 11:13:29 2003
Name:Manish Thakkar
Email:mbthakkar@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:s:No, tariffs for fixed line phones should not be hiked. People
using fixed line phones are mostly from lower middle class who cannot
afford another hike. Also, it doesn't make good business sense for fixed
line service providers to bring their tariffs at par with that of
cellular phones as most people would then migrate to cellular phones.
Sat Jan 25 11:14:11 2003
Name:CHETAN K SHAH
Email:chetan@sski.co.in
Your Views:s:Telephone rent should not be increse by MTNL-show many fixed
line surrender their telephone line.middel class pubilc should sufer. so
Telephone tarrif not to increase.
Sat Jan 25 11:14:48 2003
Name: Satish Kumar Singh
Email:Satishkumarpg@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:with the above mention unexpected increase in tarriff will
definetaly affect the land line user.This change may divert customer to
go for some other service.This will affect your revenue.
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