Two roaming free plans from BSNL w.e.f 06-08-13 - Plan - 825, Plan - 149

In a move to provide stiff competition with private operators State run BSNL has come up with free roaming plan for Postpaid GSM providers. The move seems to be quite intelligent and a step ahead than private operators, which can attract more subscibers into its basket. Though the move ALL INDIA Roaming is about to implement by TRAI very soon, BSNL surely had implemented it much ahead.

It introduced two roaming plans for its customers 

1. Plan - 825
2. Plan - 149

The BSNL AP telecom Circle has introduced two new Post paid Plans under 2G & 3G GSM mobile services w.e.f.06-08-2013. The details are given below.

Tariff for Post paid Plans.

Sl. No.	PLAN DETAILS	PLAN -825(RTP-FR)	PLAN-149(RTP-FR)
1. Initial one time payment
1.1	Registration Amount in Rs.	Nil	Nil
1.2	Activation Charges in Rs.	Rs.100/-	Rs.100/-
2. Security Deposite in Rs.
2.1	Local + STD	Rs.500/-	Rs.500/-
2.2	Local + STD + ISD	Rs.2000/-	Rs.2000/-
2.3	Local + STD + ISD + International Roaming	Rs.5000/-	Rs.5000/-
3	Fixed Monthly Charges per Month in Rs.	Rs.825/-	Rs.149/-
4	Pulse rate for Local & STD calls	60 sec	60 sec
5	Mobile to Mobile (Local)	Rs. 0.50	Rs. 1.00
6	Mobile to LL (Local)	Rs. 0.50	Rs. 1.00
7	Mobile to Mobile (STD)	Rs. 0.50	Rs. 1.00
8	Mobile to LL(STD)	Rs. 0.50	Rs. 1.00
9	Roaming O/G including MTNL	Rs. 0.50	Rs. 1.00
10	Roaming I/C including MTNL	Free	Free
11	SMS Local/National/Roaming	Rs. 1.00	Rs. 1.00
12	SMS to content providers	Rs. 3.00	Rs. 3.00
13	Video Call Local	Rs. 0.70	Rs. 1.00
14	Video Call National	Rs. 1.00	Rs. 1.50
15	Video Call Roaming O/G	Rs. 1.50	Rs. 1.50
16	Video Call Roaming I/C	Rs. 1.00	Rs. 1.00
17	ISD Call Charges	As per LL Tariff	As per LL Tariff
18	Free Call Worth Rs.	Rs.525/-	NA
19	Free SMS Worth Rs.	Rs.50/-	NA
20	Free I/C Calls in Roaming	Free	Free
21	Free O/G Calls in Roaming	500Min	NA
22	Free Calls (Local+STD)Home LSA & Roaming	NA	100Min
23	Free SMS (Local+National)	100 SMS	NA
24	Free SMS (Local+STD)Home LSA & Roaming	NA	100 SMS
25	Free GPRS Usage in Home LSA	1000 MB	NA