Trai issues consultation paper for revising national numbering plan

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Thursday issued a consultation paper on revising the National Numbering Plan to create a sustainable pool of new phone numbers for the country’s nearly 1.2 billion mobile phone connections.

In 2003, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) conducted a comprehensive review and revision of the national number plan to accommodate the rapid increase in subscribers. Subsequently, the National Numbering Plan 2003, was designed to allocate numbering resources for 750 million telephone connections across the country.