Bharti Airtel to Expand VoLTE Coverage Across Pan-India At a Faster Pace to Reduce the Costs: Analysts
Bharti Airtel to Expand VoLTE Coverage Across Pan-India At a Faster Pace to Reduce the Costs: Analysts Bharti Airtel will soon expand its VoLTE coverage across pan-India to reduce the call costs. For the unaware, Trai recently cut down the Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) by 57% , which now became to 6 paise per minute. This change from Trai will hurt the incumbent telecom operators such as Airtel, Vodafone, and Idea badly. Now, top analysts from BofA Merrill Lynch and CLSA say that the top three telecom operators will try to move to VoLTE technology at the earliest. Moving to VoLTE will ensure cost-effective business without any hassle of IUC. Sachin Salgaonkar and Karan Parmanandka, research analysts at DSP Merrill Lynch India said VoLTE rollout will be key to keep costs down. The move to a bill and keep (B&K) regime from 2020 would force existing telecoms to upgrade their networks to VoLTE as telecoms would like to migrate their traffic to VoLTE to reduce cost. Bharti ...