Trai recommends new numbering system for landline users

Fixed enactment users volition request to dial an full 10-digit fig adjacent for section calls if the proposal of telecom regulator Trai issued connected Thursday is accepted by the government.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended a caller numbering strategy to extremity the STD codification strategy for freeing up unused telephone numbers.

The caller fig strategy codification would beryllium astatine a telecom ellipse oregon authorities level.

The regulator has recommended "migration from the existing SDCA-based (STD fig based) numbering strategy to an LSA (licenced work area) based 10-digit closed numbering strategy for fixed-line services" to efficaciously mitigate telecom identifier (TI) assets oregon the telephone fig constraints successful the agelong tally for fixed-line services with minimal disruption.

A telecom ellipse oregon licenced work country (LSA) mostly refers to a state-level country oregon ample metropolitan area.

Trai recommended that to instrumentality the LSA-based 10-digit closed numbering strategy for fixed-line work subscribers volition person to dial each fixed-line to fixed-line calls utilizing a prefix of '0', followed by the SDCA (Short Distance Charging Area) oregon STD codification and the subscriber's number.

"Even section calls wrong the aforesaid SDCA are to beryllium dialled utilizing a prefix of '0', followed by the SDCA codification and the subscriber number," the regulator recommended.

According to the recommendation, determination should beryllium nary alteration successful the existing telephone numbers issued to subscribers.

Trai said that the Department of Telecom should springiness six months to telecom operators to instrumentality the caller numbering scheme.

For utilising numbers of deactivated, the Trai has recommended that nary mobile oregon fixed-line connections shall beryllium deactivated by the telecom operators until 90 days of the non-usage play expires.

It has suggested that each mobile and fixed-line connections that stay inactive owed to non-usage shall beryllium mandatorily deactivated by the TSPs aft 365 days post-expiration of 90 days of the nonusage period.

Trai recommended that nary mobile oregon fixed-line connections deactivated owed to nonusage shall beryllium reused by the work providers until the expiry of a minimum play of 90 days from the day of deactivation.

In lawsuit a a mobile oregon fixed-line connections has been deactivated/ disconnected for reasons different than non-usage specified arsenic surrender oregon disconnection by the lawsuit oregon telecom operators past connections shall beryllium reused by the telecom operators lone aft the expiry of a minimum play of 180 days from the day of deactivation oregon disconnection.

In the consultation paper, Trai was exploring the enactment of penalising oregon charging for allocation of fig resources. The regulator successful its recommendations has dropped these options.

"No further complaint oregon fiscal disincentive connected numbering resources person been recommended astatine this stage," Trai recommended.

The regulator has said that the DoT should show the yearly usage of numbering resources allocated to telecom operators and if required, whitethorn retreat unutilised numbering resources.

Trai has reiterated that the DoT should expeditiously instrumentality the caller sanction show strategy that it had recommended successful February past twelvemonth for some the regular telecom networks arsenic good arsenic IP-based calling strategy that are mostly utilized by businesses for calling to their customers.