Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: shri%ccs1@cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar{shri@ncst.in}) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephones in India (part II of II) Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 89 03:06:22 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: "H.Shrikumar{shri@ncst.in}" Organization: Nat'l Centre for S/w Tech. Bombay. Lines: 29 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 428, message 9 of 10 In article dheeraj@cs.umd.edu (Dheeraj Sanghi) writes: [ much deleted .... ] >For direct dialed calls (STD and ISD), the tariff is determined by the >"pulse rate." For every "pulse", you are charged equivalent of one >local call, which was 50 paise (3 cents). For STD, the pulse rate is >halved during night time. (I am not too sure about this.) But there is >no discount for ISD calls in the night. For STD calls the pulse The DOT has introduced a quarter rate period for STD, between 10 PM and 4 AM. And the lines at that time are much better too. For ex. the packet errot rate (for UUCP traffic) seems to fall drastically for calls during this period. True, ISD calls are the same throughout the day. >can only make local calls. They will only accept 2 fifty paise coins, >and not 1 one rupee coin or other change. Second type is from where you >can only make STD and ISD calls. These will accept only those 1 rupee >coins that were made after 1980. (But that is no problem, since usually And then there are a good number of Operator assited Phone booths where a (usually) handicapped operator dials a number and accepts the money. Change is no problem with such booths too. shrikumar ( shri@ccs1.cs.umass.edu, shri@ncst.in )