Steps listed for checking illegal routing of ISD calls

 The proposals, yet to be finalised by the committee headed by the Trai secretary, Harshvardhan Singh, includes reduction in access deficit charges to basic operators, stringent monitoring of calls at all levels and exchange of traffic data between Trai and other telecom regulators like OFTEL in UK and FCC in the US.

 Grey market accounts for nearly 50 per cent of the 7-billion-minutes-a- year ILD market. This results in huge revenue losses to VSNL and other ILD operators like Bharti Telesonic and Data Access.

 Industry sources said the committee was reviewing the impact of higher access deficit charges on the ISD tariffs.