Telecom regulator TRAI will finalise in a month, its views on the rules of tariff assessment with regard to issues like promotional offers and predatory pricing. These issues - being debated as part of TRAI's ongoing consultation on ‘Regulatory Principles of Tariff Assessment’ - have been a flashpoint between newcomer Reliance Jio and incumbent operators such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular.
“We will analyse the views received at the open house as well as the written comments, and finalise our views in the next 30 days,” TRAI Chairman, RS Sharma said on the sidelines of an open house discussion on the issue. TRAI’s views may come as an order or a regulation, he added.
“The idea is to look at the current dispensation with regard to (aspects like) transparency, non-discrimination and predatory pricing. The definition of a promotional offer. And to see whether or not there is a need to change them,” he said. The consultation on Interconnect Usage Charges or IUC - which governs the pay-outs and settlements between two operators -- is ‘mutually exclusive’ from the one on rules of tariff assessment, Sharma said.
