• The scheme shall be effective from 1st September 2001.
• The scheme is extended to all cases of leased circuits except those covered under the rent and guarantee.
• It applies to all customers - point to point, multi point, CUG, press/news agencies, all private service providers, etc.
• It applies to circuit rentals from 2nd year onwards. The first year rentals shall continue to be received as advanced annual rental.
• From the second year of the commissioning of the leased circuits the customer shall have the option to pay the leased circuit rental either annually in advance or may choose to pay as quarterly in advance.
• To Calculate the advance quarterly lease rental, the annual lease rental shall be multiplied with a factor of 0.261192. The amount so arrived at shall be the amount that is payable each quarter in advance.
• The bills for the advance quarterly lease rental shall be issued as per normal procedure 7 days prior to the expiry of the quarter for which payment has already been received. The TRF Branch shall issue the detailed billing and accounting instructions.

Single Premium rate numbers billing.

(BSNL Circular No: 104-2/2001-PHC dated 20th July, 2001)

There have been numerous request for allotment of Single PRM No. for different IN locations. The following decision has been taken by the BSNL in this regard;

• Presently, the PRM Nos. are allotted from SSPs as per the requests received from the PRM Service Providers/Customers. The Bills are raised by the concerned SSPs. The revenue share to the PRM Service provider is released after the verification of the realized amount from different telephone subscribers. However, if any PRM Service Providers takes same PRM No. at different SSPs, the settlement of accounts among concerned SSPs, and the settlement of revenue share with the PRM Service Provider becomes quite cumbersome in view of single billing for one PRM No. independent of SSP, and hence requirement of rigorous coordination among the SSPs.

• Keeping the above problems in view, it has now been decided to nominate Calcutta SSP as the Nodal SSP for coordination in such cases. All other concerned SSPs, from where such PRM Nos. are opened, will submit a monthly statement of realized revenue to the Nodal SSP. Nodal SSP will release the revenue share to the Service Providers after compiling the data on realized revenue received from different SSPs. The SSPs will subsequently settle the accounts with the Nodal SSP.

• It would also be relevant to mention here that the cases of restricting the access to PRM Service to the ITC users or to the STD/ISD subs who asks for such service, is under active consideration in Corporate Office.