Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked mobile operators to submit a report on compliance of a government order allowing telephone calls within four circles to be treated as intra-circle for tariff purposes.
The Trai's move comes in the wake of sector tribunal Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal rejecting last month a plea by some private mobile firms.
The operators had challenged the regulator's direction to discontinue differential tariffs within Maharashtra, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh -- the four circles where the department of telecommunication had in May 2005 permitted inter-service area connectivity among service providers.
The arrangement for call routing and dialling in these states was different from other states. Calls within the four states were treated as intra-service