Predatory pricing: TRAI to look into all tariff plans — past and present
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has widened its probe in the matter of predatory pricing and unlimited offers, by including all the tariff plans — past as well as present — of all the operators. This will include not only their 4G plans (and 5G in some cases) but even 2G and 3G plans.
Officials said that the idea is to find out whether all operators have violated the regulatory guidelines at some point of time by offering either ‘unlimited’ plans or indulged in any form of predatory pricing. “It needs to be found out when did it all start and who were the first ones to start,” officials said. This will be the first time that the regulator has started such a comprehensive probe into all past tariff plans by the operators.