Telenor Increases call rates

As expected, Telenor Pakistan has announced that it will increase tariff for two of its most used Talkshawk packages.
According to the announcement, call rates for Talkshawk Economy and Talkshawk 24 Hours will be revised from January 18th, 2013.
As per Telenor’s official website, new rates for Talkshawk Economy and Talkshawk 24 Hrs will be as following:

	TS 24		TS Economy
	Current	New Call Rate	Current	New Call Rate
Onnet	Rs.1.6 / Min	Rs.1.7 / Min	Rs.1.5 / Min	Rs.1.6 / Min
Offnet	Rs.1.6 / Min	Rs.1.7 / Min	Rs.1.5 / Min	Rs.1.6 / Min

It merits mentioning here Poora Pakistan offer (75 daily minutes for Rs. 10 plus tax), the most widely used offer from Telenor Pakistan, is available on Talkshawk Economy package only, and hence it is expected that majority of users are going to get impacted with this increase in tariff.
Cellular companies are now expected to increase call rate, especially when their new acquisitions are halted due to ban on sale of SIMs at retail outlets.
Following is the Telenor AD that was recently published in a newspaper: