Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Monday said all calls from national roaming subscribers will be treated as STD calls while that of global roaming users will be accounted as incoming international calls for Access Deficit Charge calculation purpose.
As such for all calls from national roaming subscribers while in different service area, ADC charge as applicable for national long distance calls shall be applicable at the rate of Rs 0.30 per minute.
An international roaming subscriber making any call while in India, will be charged Rs 3.25 per minute as ADC. For all calls from roaming subscriber, the access deficit amount will be collected by the visited network operator and paid to Bharat Sanchar Nigam.
Roaming means the ability for a cellular subscriber to automatically make and receive voice calls, data and to access other services while traveling outside the geographical coverage area of the home network.