| CLIP not a compulsorily chargeable service: Trai |
| BS Reporter / Mumbai August 28, 2007 |
| The telecom regulator has directed the service providers not to make Caller Line Identification Presentation (CLIP) a compulsory chargeable facility. Even though the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has stated that there was no justification in making CLIP facility a compulsory chargeable, it refrained from mandating a cost-based tariff for CLIP facility. In a notification issues today, TRAI stated that certain operators were providing CLIP services as a compulsory chargeable Value Added Service (VAS). CLIP is the service that enables users to view the numbers of incoming calls on their mobile phones. This helps a customer either to receive or accept the calls, and CLIP gained importance when incoming calls were also billed. |
