Trai floats consultation paper to form a unified numbering plan

The consultation paper analyses changes affecting mobile phones, fixed lines

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Friday floated a consultation paper for developing a unified numbering plan for fixed line and mobile services.

The consultation paper analyses the changes that affect the national numbering plan and identifies the ways in which numbering resource management and allocation policy might be managed for ensuring adequate numbering resources.

The paper noted that the last major review of numbering plan was carried out in 2003, with the formulation of National Numbering Plan 2003. This created a numbering space for 750 million telephone connections — 450 million cellular mobile and 300 million basic phones. “The