BSNL - Kheda telecom District

Premium Rate (PRM) Service

This is another service which can be accessed by telephone subscribers all over the country even if the Intelligent Network facility is available only in one exchange. PRM service will facilitate service providers to offer service like forecast, future, share market, job consultation etc. The service provider is allotted a PRM service number (three to five digits) by the network operator (BSNL) and that number can be accessed from any point in the network. For this service call charges will be at a higher rate (these charges will be borne by calling users) i.e. premium rate and the revenue earned is shared between service provider and network provider (BSNL). For the same PRM service number, the subscriber can have a number of destination numbers.

	The charges indicated here are PRM service charges and they do not include the normal charges levied for basic telephony service
	The services are provided on existing telephone connections.
	The minimum period of hire of the service will be one month.
	Registration Charges for the service (one time)	Rs. 3,000/-
	Creation/deletion/addition/modification of every PRM destination number	Rs. 100/-
	Bi-monthly Charges for PRM service number (payable in advance)	Equivalent to the monthly rental of an ordinary line.
	Feature Charges
	Basic Feature ChargesThe following features are part of basic feature: One PRM service number for multiple destinations and Hunting facility	Nil (in experimental phase)
	Bimonthly charges for each additional feature (payable in advance). (The additional features are optional and are provided/deleted by DoT on request from subscribers. These features are:	Nil (in experimental phase)
	Time dependent routing Origin dependent routing Call distribution Selection code Customer specific recorded announcement Call redirection, etc.
	The calling users shall have to pay for the call on time basis depending upon the premium services type. The pulse duration offered will be 2, 3, 4, 8, 30, 60 and 90 seconds per unit call . The numbering scheme will be so designed as to detect the service type application of relevant pulse rate. Charge bands for long distance calls will be issued subsequently.
	Commission to service provider given by BSNL (settlement in not less than bimonthly intervals)	70 paise per unit
	Charges for each additional copy of detailed bill	100/-
	ALLOTMENT OF SINGLE PRM NO. FOR DIFFERENT IN LOCATIONS (W.E.F.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 by BSNL 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.

The cases of restricting the access to PRM Service to the Indian Telephone Card(ITC) users or to the STD/ISD subscribers who asks for such service, is under consideration in Corporate Office.