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After Domestic IUC Reduction, Reliance Jio Now Wants International Call Rates to be Reduced

Reliance Jio has made a bold proposal yet again. Yesterday, Trai conducted a workshop on discussing the International call termination rates, and at the workshop, Reliance Jio stated that the call termination rates should be same for both domestic and international calls. Reliance Jio asked the regulator to slash the international call rates to 6 paise per minutes, and later on, completely scrap it. With this bold proposal, Reliance Jio is setting up a big battle with the incumbent operators, who wanted the rates to be hiked to Rs. 1 per minute. Currently, close to Rs. 5,000 crore revenue is coming from international calls, and most of the calls are terminated on Airtel, Vodafone, and Idea network itself. If Trai slashes the rate of Internation Termination Rate (ITR), it would be another blow for telecom operators in the country. Reliance Jio has a reason to propose these rates. The company said that the steep growth of Over-the-Top (OTT) calls made users stick to them. For example...