Soon, you may have an 11-digit mobile number

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New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) With phone operators expected to run out of 10-digit mobile numbers soon, the Department of Telecom (DoT) is now considering an 11-digit numbering system.

'With so many telecom service providers and a growing customer base, the need for new numbers and their consequent shortage will be felt soon,' a senior telecom official, who did not want to be identified, told IANS Saturday.

India has reportedly added 10.81 million mobile subscribers in December 2008.

'The TEC (Telecom Engineering Centre, DoT's technical arm) has recommended the new numbering plan that has been forwarded to the government for the final decision,' the official said.

The telecom department had come up with a 30-year numbering plan in 2003 but the fast growth in the telecom subscriber base has forced the authority to relook into its policy and consider 11-digit numbering system.

'The infrastructure is ready and this should be implemented within two years,' the official said.

Telecom operators said the new policy would not cause any technical problems.

'With such a robust growth, we would require new (number) series very soon. There would be no technical issues as such but the customers may have to face some problems initially,' Aircel chief operating officer Gurdeep Singh told IANS.

Every telecom operator is allocated a series of mobile numbers on requirement basis - for six months or a year depending on the customer base it has.

'The change, however, will be in the software only and it will not take more than a month to upgrade the changes,' the telecom official said.

Source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20090404...it-mobile.html

[krates]

numbers finished due to overpopulation or what

[amol48]

Yup read that a few days ago.

Also Govt is going to release the spectrum of Reliance and Tata to all GSM players as well. I had read that "8" will also be used as a prefix now. But when this happens, there will be lot of problems in submitting online forms coz they won't accept 11 digit number so early!

[naveen_reloaded]

i think they should now itself set it to say a 20 digit no ...... talk about a mobile N10 like Y2K

[shaunak]

THey shoud dish out hexadecimal mobile numbers.

98FA34DC

[mrintech]

Originally Posted by shadaab

hi!!!!!!!!!
not easy to remember 11digit nos.
shadaab
http://gmail.com
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Hi!!!!!!!
it's good to know about this information.
G'dat
shadaabhttp://gmail.com
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Hi!!!!!!!
what's merits from this facility?????????????
shadaab
http://gmail.com

Google will be very happy because you are promoting Gmail everywhere
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Originally Posted by shaunak

THey shoud dish out hexadecimal mobile numbers.

98FA34DC

Duh.... Phir el naya mobile lena padega jisme QWERTY keyboard hoga :-P

[Sumeet_naik]

Kii farak paendya hai? Contacts mein saved rahega.. Bus call press kardo..

[Coool]

10 ya 11....Kya farak padega?? lite..

[himtuna]

if old numbers are not changed then its perfectly fine
otherwise my gold no is a waste! I hope they dont do it, people have sped thousands of rupees to get their special no.s
@coool: this is what makes difference.

[krishnandu.sarkar]

wat bout setting up server like DHCP for dynamic nos with dynamic cnnctn........??? lolzzzzzzzzz

JUST JOKING

[INS-ANI]

@KRISHNA

Well, in that case, every time ur girlfriend calls you, she will end up fixing a new date..lol

anyway, we will never run out of numbers, but i guess, there can be even better way to communicate.
How abt having a user name instead of numbers.
it will be easy to remember..

[krishnandu.sarkar]

^^^^gr8..........

Well, in that case, every time ur girlfriend calls you, she will end up fixing a new date..lol

tumhare pass bhi call ja sakta hai........!!!!!