Pay Per Second Tariff

The per second billing was first introduced by TATA DoCoMo and which seem to have upped the ante for other telcos to respond as Tata Tele has benefited immensely from this tariff plan structure.

Idea Cellular too announced its plan to embrace per second billing after testing it in Himachal Pradesh circle. BSNL has launched per second billing few weeks ago and Vodafone is also looking for pan-India rollout.

Everyone seems to be judging the per second plan as precursor to cheapest telecom tariff in the world. The viewpoint of telecom minister was that Indian telecom subscribers would avail STD at 0.25 paise and local calls at 0.10 paise in future.