International telephone call rate
The decision of the government regarding the reduction of the rate of charges on international telephone call with 10 countries has been appreciated by the people at large. It is reported that USA and UK are countries selected to get this opportunity to begin with initially.
It may be mentioned that the number of ISD calls with India are comparatively larger since interactions on trade, education, tourism etc are more frequent with India due to geographical proximity and movement of the people apart from any other consideration. Thus, any experiment should also include India in the list at least in this sector to get a realistic result.
I therefore, request the ministry of post and telecommunication to revise their plan of action and take a wise decision by including a close neighbour in the list.
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