Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) have launched "One India Plan" with effect from 01.03.2006. This they claim will be one of the most affordable, customer friendly and innovative schemes for both local and long distance calls. Under the new Scheme, the customer will be able to call any place in India either by landline or mobile by merely spending Rs.1 per minute. The "One India" plan, also, for the first time, takes away the distinction between the fixed line tariff and the cellular tariff and thus, makes the tariff "technology independent". A similar plan has also been introduced for the customers of post paid and pre-paid mobile services of BSNL and MTNL.

Advantages of OneIndia

There is no charge shift to a new tariff plan. You need to pay a deposit of Rs 1,000 if your phone does not have an STD facility now. However, if you have a phone with STD at present, you need not pay any deposit.


You can makes calls to fixed/WLL/mobile (own network) at Re 1 for 180 seconds.

You can call any other mobile number at Re 1 for 60 seconds.

You can call any STD number (landline or mobile) at Re 1 for 60 seconds.

ISD (international call) rates have been slashed to as low as Rs 6 per minute for calls to the United States and the United Kingdom

Disadvantages of OneIndia


The rent will be hiked to Rs 299, irrespective of what rent you are paying now.

There will be no free calls in this plan.

A hike in the monthly rental is more than double the rental in some of the existing plans.

Across the various plans, rents are quite low, and it is complemented with free calls depending on the plans that you have opted for. For
instance, when you opt for a plan of Rs 500 you get 450 free calls.

The charges on OneIndia will be applicable around the clock, there will be no off peak-hour discounts.

There will be no discounts irrespective of the usage.