Customers making frequent long distance calls can now avail the benefits of 47 per cent drop in STD rates, as Bharat Sanchar Nigam's reduced tariff of Rs 4.80 per minute for long distance calls beyond 500 kilometres has been effected from Friday.
BSNL is offering STD rate at a flat Rs 4.80 per minute from the Rs 9 per minute for peak hours (9 am to 8 pm) earlier, for distance of over 500 kilometres, and the pulse would be measured at the rate of 15 seconds.
As per the new tariffs, the off-peak hour customers would, however, have to pay marginally more at Rs 4.80 per minute against Rs 4.50 earlier for domestic long distance calls beyond 500 kms.
For distance up to 500 kms, BSNL has not changed the rates.
It may be recalled that in early-January BSNL had slashed mobile-to-mobile STD tariffs to Rs 4.80 per minute from Rs nine beyond 500 kms, while retaining the existing rates for below 500 km categories.
The corporation, in fact, had bettered the mobile-to-mobile STD rate cut announcement by cellular operators by going a step forward and extending the benefit of its reduced STD tariffs to calls from mobile to fixed line telephones also.
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