The CDMA lobby group AUSPI (Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India), has moved the telecom tribunal TDSAT seeking its intervention in telecom regulator TRAI’s decision of offering unsatisfying diminution in connectivity charges.

In the petition filed by the group, it stated that TRAI has kept 20 paise per minute as mobile termination charge (MTC) in an ‘arbitrary manner’, while the cost of MTC stands below 10 paise per minute. Termination charges are paid by an operator to another on whose network the call ends.

TRAI, in its regulation on March 9, reduced termination charge for all types of domestic calls like landline to landline, landline to mobile, mobile to landline and mobile to mobile to 20 paise per minute from 30 paise per minute.

Meanwhile, BSNL has already approached the TDSAT, and has requested the telecom tribunal to annul the charges.

Further, the Association said that TRAI’s estimation was not based on a correct costing methodology and moreover was exaggerated per subscriber cost projection.

Calling the TRAI’s notification as anti-competitive and against the consumer''s interest, the Association approached the tribunal.