How can you get local calls free on the internet in India? Are internet local calls legally free or affordable?

If you have internet access, you should be able to reduce telephone charges. I have heard that the government is thinking of reducing the entry fee paid by Internet Service Providers for a license to provide pan-India Internet telephony from Rs. 1,651 crore to Rs. 43 crore.

Once ISPs are able to do that, subscribers will be able to make free and cheap local calls through computers to mobile phones and cell phones. You can expect cheap STD calls to be cheap as 40 paise to Rs. 1 per minute. As of now, though people do that, it is illegal to make local calls to fixed line and mobile phones through your computer.

ISPs that offer local internet telephony may have to share about 10 percent of their revenues with the government as charges. At present, ISPs that offer internet telephony services for STD calls have to share 6 percent of the annual revenues with the government.

If the move goes through, telecom operators can be hit hard as they would lose a lot of revenue, especially in areas where there is too much internet penetration.