Indian telecom industry is going through interesting times – entry of new players like DoCoMo and MTS has changed the entire landscape.
After pay per second, the industry is going to witness another tariff war – location based tariff – i.e. one can avail discount on calls made from certain locations (where the network is relatively free/less congested).
The technology,dynamic discount tariffing from Telecordia lets operators offer discounted call rates based on the consumer’s location and time (subscribers can get discount info via sms).
So where is this leading to? The intense tariff competition has resulted in falling ARPUs, but so many permutation/combination of tariff will result in chaos (for the customers) and maybe a perceived value-add to operators.
What’s your take?
Internet & Mobinet are gonna take the life away from greedy businessmen… what an industrial transformation
… Good for the poorest of the poor.
looks like a smart move. the real time dependent demand/supply is entering the industry. like in US we have free incoming after 6 pm here as well that could happen. giving better service to business users.
Hopefully, voice calling will go free by Jan 2010.
No wonder Telecordia has been busy, coz they are pathetically behind in mobile-number portability project.