The TRAI is supposed to release its revised tariff recommendations today. This FE article doesn’t paint too optimistic a picture for those who were looking for Caller-Party-Pays: CPP will be the norm everywhere, they suggest, unless you are calling from a fixed-line phone, essentially a BSNL phone (Bharti does offer fixed-line services through Touchtel, so could Reliance). Today will be a good litmus test for the TRAI: do they genuinely have the interests of the common man, and the development of India’s anemic telecom sector, in mind; or are they merely a “regulatory” facade for the maintenance of the old telecom raj that BSNL inherited? Stay tuned for their recommendations today.