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TRAI floats consultation paper for new numbering plan

With about 120 crore mobile phone connections in the country, allocating new phone numbers is always a challenge and to devise ways of allotting new numbers, telecom regulator TRAI has floated a consultation paper 'Revision of National Numbering Plan' to brainstorm about new number series. A novel plan is required to continue the growth of the sector, one of the obstacles to which is the growing crunch of allocating new numbers.