As a purchaser of ITC(India Telephone Card-a prepaid card from BSNL that can be used using landline) and user of this service I’m sharing my views here,
BSNL’s one of the service Intelligent Network has introduced this service. Its really great and very useful for all type of customers, this card also come with roaming usage option, once u got the card, u’ll be provided with 10 digit number. U can use that number from any telephone(landline std/isd barred) to make the calls and the cost is charged to u’r access number(given when u purchase), i.e something like mobile prepaid cards, but comparatively its really cheap.
When u make a call from mobile prepaid card, for each call its approx. Rs3/call(landline) , but this service just charges Rs1.10/call.its Just approx. 40% cost of mobile prepaid cards. Its really beneficial to the punter! And it comes with STD/ISD calling facility, similar to mobile prepaid cards.
Available in different denominations and quite enough validity period, for eg Rs 216 denomination the validity period is 2mons and Rs 525-3mons.
And comes with denomination as low as 105Rs to as high as Rs 1050 like that and the talk value is 216-5% of 216(service tax)=200Rs, quite nice to know right, u just now compare with mobile prepaid card’s talk value, about 22% of denomination, a lump amount of money is going waste!!!
If u have a PP number, like u may be tenant, u can use u’r own card to make u’r calls, quite cheaper too when compared to calls made from STD booths, u can definitely go for it. And one more notable factor, now u have the control over the cost of making calls, the headache of enormous amount of billing using postpaid connection is evaded.