Trai to Hold Discussion on IUC Next Week, Here Are the Things to Expect

The talks about the Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) have been raging in the industry. Mainly, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has a lot of decisions to make on the matter. In the past, the issue has been surrounded by much controversy, and it still remains one of the most heated arguments in the telecom industry. Also, this is not the first time that talks of the IUC regime have surfaced on the regulatory level since the discussions about this have been ongoing since 2014 and even before, and then the decisions were made to bring down the IUC costs. However, this streak was being considered to be approaching an end as the IUC cost was to be terminated by the end of this year, altogether. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be happening as Trai wants to stick with the new IUC cost of 6 paise per minute for two more years. This entails a lot of things. Now, Trai has already floated consultation paper on the matter, but next week, the sector regulator is also set to host an Open House Discussion which is probably going to result in some kind of direction about where things will go ahead.

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IUC Regime Now Affecting the Consumers

It is worth noting that for the first time in the industry, the rules about IUC have come to affect the consumers as Reliance Jio, the Mukesh Ambani led telecom operator has decided to levy the burden of IUC on its subscribers for every outgoing call that they make to other networks. In fact, the matter of IUC has snowballed into such a big one that Reliance Jio and the other two rival telecom operators stand poles apart on the issue.