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[27 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
What next after per second billing…..

Let us visit some eventualities that I foresee as a result of the per-second billing:
 1. The interconnect charges will drop, and not to the 10paisa per minute that our Honourable Minister recently recommended but, to a per-second rate. In fact 0.1 paisa per second is where I see it coming down to shortly.
 2.  The franchisee or the MVNO model will die. With retail sales at 1p/sec what can wholesale prices come down to? Moreover it is just not a question of retail Vs wholesale but the fact that while revenues …