I'm using Airtel. I have no idea what my actual scheme is but I do know that I hardly pay anything on local text messages. And almost everyone I know in India (regardless of carrier) has a similar deal where the cost of sms is, as they say, a rounding error.
The exception is when they charge extra on holidays. I guess that part is a bit of a racket, though a more benign explanation would be that they're just trying to keep the network traffic to a maintainable level on those days.
The exception is when they charge extra on holidays. I guess that part is a bit of a racket, though a more benign explanation would be that they're just trying to keep the network traffic to a maintainable level on those days.