Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal told the Lok Sabha today that calls on mobile phones will be made free in the next ten years. Replying to supplementaries during question hour, he said communication is a fundamental right and it should not be charged. He said that telecom companies are working on a plan to earn revenue from data instead of calls. The Minister admitted that the services of BSNL are not upto the mark in the North-East, Uttarakhand and some other places. But he assured the members that after completion of core networking, the situation will improve. Mr. Sibal told the House that for the first time the number of cell phone users in the country has declined. About fifty crore people in the country still do not have mobile phones. He hoped that by linking landline telephones with broadband, the number of its subscribers will go up.