{"id":1027840,"date":"2026-08-11T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027840"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:05:58","slug":"trai-initiates-implementation-of-1601-series-numbers-for-utilities-courier-logistics-firms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/trai-initiates-implementation-of-1601-series-numbers-for-utilities-courier-logistics-firms-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI initiates implementation of 1601-series numbers for utilities, courier &amp; logistics firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday issued directions to non-banking sector companies on the usage of the 1601-series numbers for transactional and service calls. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on consultations with stakeholders, it has been decided to implement the series, covering entities in utilities, courier, and logistics sectors under Phase-I,\u201d the telecom regulator said in an official statement. <\/p>\n<p>The 1601-series numbers will be allocated directly to eligible entities, and not to intermediaries or aggregators, after due verification by the telecom operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday issued directions to non-banking sector companies on the usage of the 1601-series numbers for transactional and service calls. &#8220;Based on consultations with stakeholders, it has been decided to implement the series, covering entities in utilities, courier, and logistics sectors under Phase-I,\u201d the telecom regulator said in an official statement. The 1601-series numbers will be allocated directly to eligible entities, and not to intermediaries or aggregators, after due verification by the telecom operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027842,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027840\/revisions\/1027842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}