Charges & Commercial conditions for Local Leads and Local Circuits provided on Special Constructions on OFC (Previously known as Rent and Guarantee Cases).

              To provide bandwidth on demand by the MTNL to the customers and to make the tariff structure attractive & simple, the Executive Director, MTNL Delhi has approved following Charges and Guidelines for Special Constructions for Local Leads and Local Circuits on OFC (Previously known as Rent and Guarantee Cases.  

• Planning Unit is to make the OF overlay network construction plans with a view to cover the potential demands of all the commercial complexes in Delhi, as a strategic plan.

• Bandwidth demands of 64 Kbps up to a distance of about 7 KM and bandwidth demands of above 64 kbps and up to 2 Mbps up to a distance of 3 KM or more as technically feasible can be provided on copper pair using DSL modems. In such cases there is no need for special OF construction and existing tariff can be continued. For such bandwidths (64kbps and 2 Mbps) up to 3 km, if copper pairs not available due to TNF reasons, the copper cable should be laid to clear the TNF areas as in the case for DELs.  Such cases should not be treated, as R&G and the flat rate tariff for these bandwidths on these distance ranges, which is being charged now by MTNL, should be applied.  If potential for higher bandwidth envisaged, then Optical Fibre Cable may be laid .

•  With the laying of the OF overlay networks progressively in different Areas of Delhi, the length of additional OF cable to be laid after receiving specific demand from an individual customer is expected to reduce.  This is likely to reduce the time taken to provide bandwidth to the customers since much of the distance would have been covered by the strategically laid OF overlay network.  

•   All the bandwidth demands, to be provided as leased lines on existing infrastructure or requiring special construction, may be made by the customers in the existing proforma being used for leased lines. Any additional columns needed for information required in case of special constructions, such as commitment period, whether customer is able to provide power plant and battery at his premises, etc. may be added in this proforma.

•  All customers with a demand for 2 MBPS and above should be handled by nodal officer i.e. DGM (BD), in a single window fashion. This will avoid any delay in co-ordinating between the field, commercial, planning, construction and accounts wings in expediting the solution in an accountable way.  All these wings should give their inputs directly to the DGM(BD) as far as these cases are concerned.  The DGM(BD) in turn will put forth any case, if needed, to the GM(BD) for approval.   

• All the necessary tariff details and commercial guidelines should be made available to the customer across the counter in a nicely printed brochure & additional sheets where necessary. On registration of the demand, the commercial officer shall immediately issue the demand note for the annual rentals payable for the bandwidth for the first year of usage, as per the bandwidth demanded and depending on whether the customer premises at both ends are situated within the local area (0 to 5 KM) or beyond the local area (5 to 10KM) from the nearest telephone exchange i.e. the local telephone exchange which provides the telephone service to the customer.

•  In order to expedite the issuing of the demand note, the commercial officer may assume that the chargeable distance of customer premises from the nearest telephone exchange at the far end of the bandwidth link is in the range of 0 to 5 KM.  The demand note can be issued on the basis of this assumption and subject to the condition, to be communicated to the customer in the demand note, that this will be verified subsequently with the MTNL office at the other end and the revised demand note shall be payable by the customer in case there is a correction needed due to the fact that the distance of the customer premises from the nearest telephone exchange at the other end is in the range of 5 to 10 KM.    

•   A simplified charging method for bandwidth provision for the OF local lead has been worked out, taking into account the cost of construction of the OF local lead (including the cost of equipment at both ends of the local lead).  For a specific bandwidth demand, a single rate has been prescribed for the annual rental for the OF local lead for all cases where the customer premises is situated within the local area (a radius of 0 to 5 KM) of the nearest telephone exchange RLU/RSU serving the customer, and another single rate has been prescribed for the annual rental for the OF local lead for all the cases where the customer premises is situated beyond the local area i.e. a radius of more than 5 km up to 10 KM of the nearest telephone exchange/RLU/RSU serving the customer.

• Leased Circuits in distance slab 0-3 Km. will be provided on copper pairs however if a customer desires it to be on OFC then rates as given below in the table may be charged.

•  The details of the charges of the OF local lead (including the rental of equipment at both ends of the local lead) are as given below:  

Annual Rentals for OF local lead (All figures in Rs. Lakhs).  

• The detailed commercial terms and conditions for bandwidth provision on special construction as above are as mentioned in Annexure I.  

• This is an internal circular.  Separate brochure may be prepared for customer information urgently.