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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) regulation on the mobile termination charges (MTC) has invited critical commentary in this paper and elsewhere (September 24 editorial, Business Line; September 23, The Financial Express; September 28, Mint). My article in this paper questioned the rationale for the decision. Some amplification is necessary. More importantly, the long-term future of the industry merits serious discussion.
Trai’s justification for its decision was: Full IP networks have close to zero MTC; IP networks are the future and telcos must be coaxed to invest and move to such technology; and, calculating MTC on the LRIC pure methodology.
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