TELECOM

Subject: Economy

Context: From January 15, all consumers trying to dial a mobile number using landline phones will need to prefix the mobile number with 0,  the department of telecom said.

Concept:

• With the consideration of TRAI Recommendation on “Ensuring Adequate Numbering Resources for Fixed Line and Mobile Services” Department of Telecommunications has taken the decision of implementing the following,
• All Fixed to Mobile calls will be dialed with prefix ‘0’ from 15th January, 2021.
• There will be no change in dialing plan from fixed to fixed, mobile to fixed and mobile to mobile calls.
• Suitable announcement will be made for the same. This announcement shall be played whenever a subscriber dials a fixed to mobile call without prefixing ‘0’.
• All fixed line subscribers will be provided with ‘0’ dialing facility.
• A total of approximately 2539 million numbering series is expected to be generated from the above. This will free up sufficient numbering resources for future use.
• With the freeing up of sufficient numbering resources, more number of connections can be added in future which will be beneficial to the mobile customers at large.