ISLAMABAD: The cellular company--Jazz has added Rs99 - a service charge for its Corporate (Business to Business) customers.

This was confirmed by Jazz officials while responding to Business Recorder questions.

The Company stated that for Jazz’s Corporate (Business to Business) customers, a minimum service charge of Rs99 is being added, with prior intimation. This addition enables Jazz Business customers to benefit from additional facilities, including seamless service delivery, efficient issue resolution, specialized solutions and convenient management.

The terms and conditions including tariffs of corporate customers are governed through contracts with respective companies for which no approval of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is needed.

However, the Company further stated that retail customers are charged according to the approved retail tariffs. Jazz as significant market player is bound to take prior approval from the PTA for revision in tariff for retail customers.

The PTA senior officials confirmed to Business Recorder that corporate package are not advertised on nationwide basis and PTA is not regulating it.

However, the PTA has disallowed another Telecom operator--Telenor not to charge service charge in addition to line rent, the officials added.

When contacted, a senior official of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) informed Business Recorder that the said service charges are not part of the FBR taxes. The amount of these charges would be not be deposited in the FBR’s tax collection, they added.

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