11 Digit mobile numbers in India from 1st Jan 2010
As the mobile phone users are increasing day by day, as per DoT (Department of Telecom), there will be a mobile number change from current 10 digit system to 11 digits mobile numbers with a prefix of 9 on 1st January 2010. Currently the indian market has close to 500 million subscribers and it expects the mobile phone user base to reach 1 billion by 2014. So, to accomodate such a huge customer base, DoT decided to increase all the mobile numbers to 11 digits by adding a prefix of 9.
Who all will be affected by this move?
1. The telecom service providers have to change the switching to accomodate 11 digit numbers. As per TOI, the telecom service providers in India use sofisticated switching system. So, there won't be much difficulty in doing that.
2. The users need to update their address book by appending a prefix 9 to all mobile numbers.
Caution!!
If you are using software to update your address book, make sure all landline numbers don't append the prefix 9 as land line numbers are not changed.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please give your feedback, questions and suggestions. I will surely answer you.