New Delhi, June 9
Following suit of the private telecom operators, the state-run telecom major, BSNL, today announced a 40-50 per cent reduction in STD charges of cellular services under various plans. It also announced to slash the call charges of landline services by 50 per cent.
According to a statement issued here, for the landline services, BSNL has reduced the STD rates from Rs 2.40 to Rs 1.20 per minute to all networks in general and ‘sulabh’ plan.
“The intra-circle call charges, to BSNL network and inter circle (STD) call charges to all networks, has also been reduced by 50 per cent,” BSNL CMD Kuldeep Goyal said.
Roaming charges under pre-paid and post-paid services have also been revised.
Earlier this year, private telecom operators like Airtel and Vodafone had reduced their STD and roaming charges.
