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BAK Regime to Foster Innovation and Safeguard Consumer Interests – TUG IndiaUrges government to end IUC tenure by scheduled 31st December 2019 | ||
New Delhi, Delhi, India TUG India an associate body with INTUG, a global association of business users of telecommunications, informing policy makers on the subjects that matter to professional users of communication services, today issued a press statement, urging the government to uphold its schedule of implementing BAK regime for Interconnection Usage Charges (IUC).
Anil Prakash, President, TUG India, signifying the importance of moving to this new system of dealing IUC said, “Any policy decision is expected to foster innovation and keep consumer interests supreme to every other stakeholder including the government. In this view, it will be regressive to defer implementation of BAK procedure of dealing with IUC.”
“Consumers – business as well as individual, expect latest to be offered by way of implementation of newer technologies. Trends show that users have been overwhelmingly paying more for new and innovative services. In this spirit, it is important to disincentivise continuation of provisioning of older technologies to consumers,” concluded Mr. Prakash.
Supporting its stand, TUG India made the following observations: -
As per ‘The Telecommunication Interconnection Usage Charges (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulations, 2017’ dated 19th September 2017, issued by TRAI, IUC was reduced from 14 paise to 6 paise per minute from October 1st, 2017 and is scheduled to be abolished under Bill and Keep (BAK) regime effective January 1st, 2020. On September 18th, 2019, TRAI floated a consultation for the review of IUC and solicited views from the stakeholders about the subject.
TUG India is of the view that the government must go ahead with its schedule of January 1st, 2020 to implement the BAK method of IUC as it fosters innovation and serves the interests of the consumers in the most effective manner.
About Telecom Users Group of India www.tugi.org.in.
The group uses its influence to actively promote professional customers' interests at the international level and ensures that the voice of the business user is clearly heard. The long-term focus of INTUG is to bring down all barriers companies and public institutions face when developing their ICT strategies.
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