People who opted for the Lifetime Validity offer, read on..

[Ashok]

People who opted for the Lifetime Validity offer, read on..

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has reportedly confirmed that the lifetime plans of the cellular operators can only be offered during the lifetime of their license, and to that extent the lifetime plans of different operators will vary in their validity duration. The service providers cannot commit to a service offering beyond the lifetime of their license. Licenses are issued for a period of 20 years, with the first set of telecom licenses being issued in 1994-95

This is in response to TRAI's investigation into the viability of the different lifetime validity options.

Service providers, both GSM and CDMA operators have informed TRAI that the tariff plans for "lifetime validity" can be changed by them anytime, and that under existing laws service providers are required to ensure that tariffs for lifetime validity plans remain unchanged only for a period of six months from the time a subscriber buys such a plan.

These tariff plans have been made keeping in mind the present licensing, regulatory and interconnect user charge regimes. If any of this were to change in the future, the service providers have made it clear that the tariff packages will be altered.