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Iridium India cuts handset, call charges

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CIOL Bureau
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Iridium India, the

global satellite phone services company, has slashed its handset and airtime

prices by half.

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The price of handsets

has been reduced from 1.95 lakh to Rs 0.99 lakh. There's also an additional

call-alert facility.

Airtime prices for

international satphone calls have come down by around 50 percent. The

domestic satcall rates have been reduced by 23 percent from Rs 195 per

minute to Rs 150 per minute.

The company has also

removed the subscription fee of Rs 2,750.

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For international

calls, Iridium has simplified the original 15-zone pricing structure ranging

from Rs 300-400 per minute to a flat rate of Rs 170 per minute.

The company also plans

to come up with customized tariff packages to help customers pay less

for the satellite communication.

Further, the calls

will now be metered in 10-second increments instead of the current one-minute

billing.

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