Cellphone Users in India would soon enjoy free incoming calls while Roaming. Union Minister for Telecommunications Kapil Sibal has announced that by October 2103, the additional charges on Roaming would be abolished.
At present, telecom operators have to pay various charges like termination charge, interconnect charges, for completing call of their customers on to other networks which get added to the final cost of the call for the customer.
Sibal was launching  the National Internet Registry of India. It  is an entity which coordinates the allocation of Internet Protocol addresses with other Internet resource management function at a national level in the country.
According to Sibal, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has already issued a consultation paper and soon after the recommendations are received, the government will start free roaming.
In December, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI )Â had floated a pre-consultation paper seeking inputs from stakeholders on tariff for national roaming services.
It sought views of stakeholders on aspects of national roaming services like the cost components of call rates to be considered, the manner of cost recovery in case incoming calls are to be made free, the tariff for video calls and SMS while roaming, need for permitting special tariff vouchers for roaming customers.
As per DoT’s internal note, the  free roaming concept was supposed to be implemented nationwide by March 2013.