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Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd revises One India Plan rates

State owned Telecom Company MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd) is working hard on retaining their customer base by further making their packages attractive.

The company has now reduced the fixed monthly rental charge for its ‘One India Plan’ from Rs 299 to Rs 180. Customers of this plan can now make STD calls at Re 1 per minute to any place in India. However, this plan does not come with any free calls.

MTNL is losing their fixed line customer base at a rapid pace. It has 37.6 lakh fixed-line subscribers now as against 38.5 lakh in June-end.

NK Goyal, president of the Indian Manufacturing Foundation and a telecom expert spoke on this new development: “The tendency among existing fixed-line users is to switch to mobile phones, unless the fixed line also combines with it an offer of a broadband internet connection.”

RSP Sinha, chairman and managing director, MTNL added: “The ‘One India’ scheme launched last year could attract only about one lakh subscribers but with reduction in rentals and the freedom to call any place in the country, we expect growth in both call time and number of subscribers.”

Anita Soni, director (finance), MTNL further said: “We have many more plans. I’m sure we will make up whatever business we have lost once we launch our internet protocol television, by which television programmes can also be accessed through the telephone line.”