No more roaming charges

One-number-one-nation concept implementation started . The government yesterday cleared National Telecom Policy 2012 that aims to abolish roaming charges thus allowing mobile phone subscribers to use same number across country without having to pay any extra charges.

Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said that "Target is one nation full mobile number portability and work towards one nation free roaming" They got cabinet approval to implement NTP. The Department of Telecom will now start process to implement full mobile number portability allowing users to retain their existing number at the time of changing their service providers across any state in the country. It may requires some more time to reach the consumers .

Under the new policy broadband speed has also been increased to minimum of 2 megabit per second (mbps) . This change will come into force with immediate effect.