Callers will now be required to add the ‘0’ prefix for making calls from landlines to mobile phones in the country from 15 January, confirmed Department of Telecommunications on Wednesday.The telecom department has been asking telcos to make necessary arrangements by January 1 to implement the new system.
The decision comes in order to free up sufficient numbering resources for future use.
With the consideration of TRAI Recommendation on “Ensuring Adequate Numbering Resources for Fixed Line and Mobile Services” DoT 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.A 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 a ‘0’ dialing facility.“A total of approximately 2,539 million numbering series is expected to be generated from the above.This will free up sufficient numbering resources for future use,” the telecom ministry said in a statement.
With the freeing up of sufficient numbering resources, more connections can be added in the future which will be beneficial to the mobile customers at large.
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