Access deficit was a tax imposed on the mobile consumers for subsidising BSNL to provide rural telephony. Most of the operators have not set up mobile towers in rural areas citing “losses”. Further, they chose to set up “Universal Access” fund (or something similar to this) to get subsidised for setting up the infrastructure. So far, it has not happened as yet.
Once the access deficit charge was waived off, most of the operators crowed about the fact that the call charges would be reduced further. I have not had the good news so far.
We might not see the good things happening to us soon.
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