{"id":983071,"date":"2026-01-03T07:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983071"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:14:09","slug":"telcos-seek-higher-incoming-international-call-rates-to-curb-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/03\/telcos-seek-higher-incoming-international-call-rates-to-curb-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos seek higher incoming international call rates to curb spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Domestic telecom operators have called for an increase in India&#8217;s international call termination charges (ITCs), saying they pay substantially higher amounts to foreign carriers for outgoing calls than what they receive for incoming calls. <\/p>\n<p>Indian telcos currently receive a maximum of Rs 0.65 per minute for incoming international calls &#8211; among the lowest in the world &#8211; but pay anywhere between Rs 2 and Rs 19 per minute to foreign carriers for outgoing calls, depending on the destination country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Domestic telecom operators have called for an increase in India&#8217;s international call termination charges (ITCs), saying they pay substantially higher amounts to foreign carriers for outgoing calls than what they receive for incoming calls. Indian telcos currently receive a maximum of Rs 0.65 per minute for incoming international calls &#8211; among the lowest in the world &#8211; but pay anywhere between Rs 2 and Rs 19 per minute to foreign carriers for outgoing calls, depending on the destination country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}