While Vodafone and Tata Docomo slashed their national roaming rates, Airtel has now joined the bandwagon.
Bharti Airtel has announced its new revised tariffs for its customers on National Roaming. The new tariffs would be applicable from May 1 for all the Airtel customers across India. With the new rates in effect, customers will pay 40 percent less on incoming calls when on roaming.
With the revised rates in effect, Airtel customers on roaming would be charged 20 percent less for local outgoing calls whereas the customers would be paying 23 percent less for STD calls. Similarly, customers would be charged at 40 paise per minute instead of the earlier 75 paise per minute for all incoming calls. As for SMS, the rates have been reduced by a whopping 75 percent.