NEW DELHI, DEC 3: State-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limted (VSNL) today cut down internet tariff by 30 per cent, in the face of stiff competition from private service providers following the opening up of the internet market.VSNL has revised tariff for TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/internet protocol) that allows users to surf internet with own software and without the help of local telephone carriers and offered in a new package named "flexihour".
As per the flexihour tariff, a VSNL TCP/IP access for the first 100 hours would cost Rs 3000. The user can renew the account at a tariff of Rs 3500 for 250 hours or at Rs 7000 for 500 hours at the rate of Rs 14 per hour, according to VSNL.
Along with the new tariff, VSNL also offers a simple E-Mail address to its users in the format of "myname@vsnl.Com" in place of the exisiting lengthy address.
The existing TCP/IP tariff structure has three plans in which a one year usage of 100 hours costs Rs 3000 at the rate of Rs 30 per hour, while plan II costsRs 6,500 for usage of 250 hours at the rate of Rs 26 per hour.
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