Local telecom operator CTM announced yesterday that it will lower its IDD (international direct dialling) tariffs effective from December 8 and that the average rate of reduction will be up to 45 percent.
The company held a press conference yesterday about its new IDD tariff scheme at its headquarters in Taipa.
Following the “comprehensive” tariff reduction on the IDD service in 2013, the company said it was “once again” introducing a tariff reduction scheme, adding it expected the new tariffs to benefit residents to enjoy a “high quality” of IDD service at a more “affordable” price.
According to the company, under the new scheme, IDD countries and regions are divided into five different price zones, namely one pataca, two patacas, three patacas, five patacas and nine patacas per minute. Most of the popular IDD destinations such as the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as foreign countries such as Australia, Canada, Portugal, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States, are categorised into one pataca or two patacas zones, the company said.
CTM Commercial Vice President Ebel Cham (centre), CTM Marketing Director Jacob Iu (right) and CTM Corporate Communications Director Eliza Chan host yesterday’s press conference about the IDD tariff reduction, at its headquarters in Taipa. Photo: CTM
