BSNl mobile customers now have a big reason to smile. The public sector telecom major, BSNl has decided to offer free incoming calls, during roaming, to its mobile customers for a period of one year, beginning next week. The announcement comes ahead of the scheme call full mobile number portability (MNP) which is in the offing. Announcing the scheme, Minister of Communications and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “BSNl has taken lead to announce another landmark decision in the larger interest of public which will benefit crores of its existing as well as new subscribers. Now BSNl mobile customers will not need to carry multiple SIMs and handsets during roaming. They are now free to talk as long as they want without worrying of any charges during incoming calls. It is the first step of realising the goal of the one nation one number scheme. It will specially benefit the people having transferable jobs and student community who have to change their mobile numbers very frequently owing to transfer liability.” Speaking on the occasion CMD, BSNl, Anupam Shrivastava said, “In the past, we were the first movers in many customer beneficial initiatives. In 2002 when we entered in mobile segment we started free incoming calls for the first time within license service area(state). Prior to that, the customers had to pay for incoming calls also at the rate as high as `16 per minute.