Free incoming call proposal on hold: COAI

Cellular operators have decided to put on hold their proposal to offer free incoming calls between two networks to the cellular customers in the country. “The proposal for offering customers free incoming calls between any two mobile networks, not necessarily in the same circle, has been put on hold,” T.V. Ramachandran, director general of Cellular Operators Association of India (coai), told PTI.

“There were various complications involved in the sense that while talking about mobile to mobile free incoming calls from any network to any network, how do we reasonably address factors such as whether fixed charges should be applicable, or it is more appropriate to have a termination charge,” he said, adding that certain technical issues relating to the numbering scheme were also involved.