The Hindu : Aircel's new tariff plan

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Tuesday, Dec 24, 2002

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Aircel's new tariff plan

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI DEC. 23. Aircel has introduced a new tariff plan from today. Under the scheme all incoming calls are free and outgoing calls will be free up to 1,200 minutes a month. After 1,200 minutes of usage, a three minute call will be charged at Rs. 1.20, according to the Chairman of Aircel, C. Sivasankaran. The upfront fee will be Rs. 19,500. The subscribers, both existing and new, can talk for 60 months or 18,700 minutes free of cost. They will be entitled to earn a reward of one rupee a minute, for every minute of outgoing airtime used by them.

Addressing a press conference here today, Mr. Sivasankaran said that the reward would be computed at the rate of Re. 1 per minute for outgoing call usage. However, there is a rider. A company release said that the reward would be based on least number of outgoing calls in minutes in any month during the 60-month period from January 1, 2003 multiplied by 60 months multiplied by Re 1 per minute. The maximum reward would not exceed Rs. 20,400.

The subscriber should be an active Aircel subscriber at the time of claiming the reward. Similarly, he/she should have paid all monthly bills in time and should not have defaulted for more than three times during the 60-month period. Finally the subscriber should be eligible for the reward at the end of the 60-month period from January 1, 2003.

The Chairman said all the existing post-paid subscribers would be entitled to the reward at the end of five years. Either the subscribers could opt for a total payment tariff plan or enter into a monthly scheme of payment, which would be Rs. 500 a month. He claimed that the scheme need not require any approval from TRAI.

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