Bharti, Hutch quietly raise local call rates

NEW DELHI: After raising STD call rates, Bharti Airtel and Hutch (now Vodafone Essar) have now quietly increased local charges within their own network to Rs 1.20 per minute for prepaid customers from Rs one a minute.
The new call charges, which come into effect from today, will be for prepaid customers for Airtel-to-Airtel and Hutch-to-Hutch calls, officials of both the companies said.
The two operators have also increased local SMS rates to Rs 1.20 per message for all users, both prepaid and postpaid, from Re one earlier.

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