News Desk: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) mandated all the telecom operators in the country on Friday to offer the 1p/sec plan along with their other innovative plans.


As per this fifty-first amendment order, the telecom companies can provide 25 tariff plans but it must include the ‘1 paisa per second’ plan.


The amendment provides that it had become "mandatory" for service providers to offer in each service area at least one tariff plan each for both postpaid and prepaid subscriber with a uniform pulse rate of 'one second'.


In case of the calls and SMS made for participating in competition (mainly TV shows) and voting, TRAI has mandated that the tariff for such calls and SMS shall not exceed four times of the applicable local call or SMS charges.


The mandate has been made keeping in view the result of the views asked earlier. The Authority had issued a consultation paper in October last year on "Certain issues relating to Telecom Tariff" seeking views of the stakeholders.


TRAI has also retained the existing limit of 25 tariff plans that can be offered by access service providers including post-paid and pre-paid.

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