This One India One Rate is OPTIONAL that means older plans will not be abandoned. If a customer makes only local calls there are so many providers giving good deals. These socialistic bureaucrats must understand that technology is there for everyone to enjoy not just for selected few as in the socialistic era. One India clearly achieves this objective. It may bring the irrelevant BSNL, other in-between and inefficient government agencies down but that is inevitable. There is no justification of higher call costs in India especially in the form of subsidies to state owned dinosaurs.