Justice Anand refers TRAI case to Supreme Court

The reason the TRAI wanted the stay vacated on their Calling Party Pays CPP order which was to become effective from November 1. The SLP also mentioned that staying the order would breach their jurisdiction on matters relating to tariff.

Under the order, in-coming calls on cellphones were to become free while the callers from normal landlines would have to pay a premium rate up to four times more than the present call charges of Rs 1.20 for a three-minute call. This was stayed by the Delhi HighCourt.

, Justice S N Variava and Justice S K Mahajan, last week. It was said that the scheme was anti-consumer and would also lead to substantial loss to the public sector organisations like the MTNL Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd and the Department of Telecommunications.