Following Reliance's move to offer roaming at no extra charge, Sunil Mittal owned Bharti Group on Friday announced new roaming charges without monthly rental of Rs 99 and incoming calls costing just Rs 1.99 per minute.
Bharti, however, has imposed a daily roaming rental of Rs five, subject to a maximum of Rs 25 per month, for roaming on networks other than AirTel.
New charges would be effective from January 1, 2004.
While roaming, new incoming call rate would be Rs 1.99 a minute as compared to Rs 6.44 per minute at present, local outgoing calls would cost Rs 1.99 per minute on any other network while the long distance STD call on fixed and WLL network would cost Rs 1.99 for 50-200 km distance, Rs 2.99 for 200-500 km and Rs 3.99 for over 500 km distance slab.
Last week Reliance's decision to offer roaming at no extra charge had prompted cellular operators like Hutchison and MTNL to announce new lower roaming charges.