Decisions taken regarding Ensuring Adequate Numbering Resources for Fixed Line and Mobile Services

Decisions taken regarding Ensuring Adequate Numbering Resources for Fixed Line and Mobile Services

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-III – Infrastructure

In news

• With the consideration of TRAI Recommendation on “Ensuring Adequate Numbering Resources for Fixed Line and Mobile Services”, Department of Telecommunications shall implement certain decisions.

Decisions taken

• All Fixed to Mobile calls will be dialed with prefix ‘0’ from 15th January, 2021.
• There will be no change in dialling plan from fixed to fixed, mobile to fixed and mobile to mobile calls.
• An 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’ dialling 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.