The state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) in its latest bid to compete with the private telecom players on the market knocked down call charges at uniform rates for all parts of the country.

As per the latest decision, the billing rate for BTCL-to-BTCL call from anywhere in the country at any time will be 30 paisa per minute. “There will be no peak or off-peak hours,” a BTCL announcement said today.

The flat rate for both NWD (nation-wide dealing) and local calls will come into effect from July 1. However, the BTCL subscribers will be charged 65 paisa for calling mobile phone or other PSTN (Private Switching Telephone Network) phones. And again there will be no peak or off-peak hours in this case also.

-Daily Star