Govt rings in OneIndia planOur Economy Bureau / New Delhi February 11, 2006BSNL, MTNL to offer domestic long-distance calls at Re 1/min.Beginning March this year, Indian telecom users, irrespective of their network and location, will find that mobile phones and landlines offer the same Re 1 per minute rate for making domestic long distance calls, down from the current Rs 2.40 per minute. Local calls will be available at 20 paise less for every three minutes for urban users and dearer by the same amount for semi-urban and rural area users. Mobile phones will lose one key selling point, STD calls made from them will no longer be cheaper than fixed lines.After withstanding sustained pressure from Telecommunications Minister Dayanidhi Maran, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam finally decided to bite the bullet and rolled a tariff structure that despite being called
