Mumbai, Oct 23: Tata Indicom has slashed ISD tariffs by upto 70 per cent for calls to select international destinations including UK and by upto 60 per cent for calls to places like US, Canada and Europe orginating from non-metros. The slash, in line with other service providers, is under the company's special festive bonanza, Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL), owner of Tata Indicom brand, said in a release here today.

The reduction, is for calls made from the company's landline, fixed wireless terminals (FWT) and payphones, and would be effective from midnight of Saturday for a one-month period, it said. Customers in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra (excluding Mumbai) can now make calls to US, Canada and Europe at Rs 9.60 per minute, down from the existing rates of Rs 24 per minute, the release said.

The festive rates allows a special rate for calls to UK at Rs 7.2 per minute with a 10-second pulse rate, while that for US, Canada and rest of Europe would at a 7.5-second count, it said. The Tata Company said that calls made from its CDMA mobile phones to US, Canada and Europe would be at charged at Rs eight per minute at a 60-second pulse rate, it said.

For the customers in metros of Mumbai and Delhi, the calls would be charged at Rs 14.40 per minute, which is reduction by 40 per cent from existing rates, it added.

Bureau Report