Jio to charge for calls made to other telecom operators

India's only profitable telecom operator Reliance Jio has gone back on its three-year-old promise to keep voice calls free and will immediately start charging for outgoing calls made to rival networks - BSNL, MTNL, Airtel, Vodafone and Idea - at 6 paise a minute.

The operator said it has been compelled, most reluctantly and unavoidably, to do this after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) decision to review t....