GUWAHATI, Aug 25: BSNL subscribers have a reason to rejoice. From September 1, all the Northeastern States will be brought under its local call scheme.
Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur form one Licensed Service Area (LSA). All mobile calls across these three States are treated as local calls. Similarly, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura are treated as one LSA. Asom is the third LSA.
A Guwahati-based organization called Himalaya Parivar had appealed to BSNL, Assam Telecom Circle, to bring the entire Northeast region under one local area network without roaming charges. The organization had argued that if a person had to travel from Itanagar to Dimapur, he would have to pass through Asom for which he would have to use STD with roaming to make a call even within the same telecom circle. Similarly, if a person had to go from Guwahati to Silchar, he would have to pass through Meghalaya and hence if he did not have roaming and STD facilities he would not be able to make any calls while in Meghalaya.
Since the decision to merge all the three LSAs could be taken only by the Department of telecommunications (DoT), Himalaya Parivar had also submitted a memorandum to the Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology (dated December 10, 2008).
BSNL, Assam Telecom Circle has now announced free roaming and local call tariffs between Northeast and Asom LSAs from September 1. Incoming calls while roaming will now be free and outgoing calls and SMSes while roaming will be charged as per local LSA tarif
f. THE SENTINEL
Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur form one Licensed Service Area (LSA). All mobile calls across these three States are treated as local calls. Similarly, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura are treated as one LSA. Asom is the third LSA.
A Guwahati-based organization called Himalaya Parivar had appealed to BSNL, Assam Telecom Circle, to bring the entire Northeast region under one local area network without roaming charges. The organization had argued that if a person had to travel from Itanagar to Dimapur, he would have to pass through Asom for which he would have to use STD with roaming to make a call even within the same telecom circle. Similarly, if a person had to go from Guwahati to Silchar, he would have to pass through Meghalaya and hence if he did not have roaming and STD facilities he would not be able to make any calls while in Meghalaya.
Since the decision to merge all the three LSAs could be taken only by the Department of telecommunications (DoT), Himalaya Parivar had also submitted a memorandum to the Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology (dated December 10, 2008).
BSNL, Assam Telecom Circle has now announced free roaming and local call tariffs between Northeast and Asom LSAs from September 1. Incoming calls while roaming will now be free and outgoing calls and SMSes while roaming will be charged as per local LSA tarif
f. THE SENTINEL
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