In a move to promote reduction of access deficit charges (ADC), I...
In a move to promote reduction of access deficit charges (ADC), Indian telecom regulator TRAI suggested switching to a regime based on a percentage of revenue. It said while in most countries, the funding of access deficit had been…
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merged with the Universal Service Obligation program, “in India too, the aim… is to transition towards such a situation, while maintaining an [ADC] regime in the interim period.” The ADC regime, which was first implemented by TRAI in Jan. 2003 and revised later that year, has raised serious concerns among many U.S. providers of international long distance. CompTel/Ascent has said while the revised regulation “offers some limited structural improvements on the ADC component, [it] still relies on an imprecise calculation of the access deficit to be recovered and continues to place a heavy recovery burden on international service providers and their customers.” TRAI asked for comments on the proposal by July 15.