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In an unthinkable situation, the current ten digit series is fast grinding to a halt in India, with the subscriber base fast shooting past one billion in the number allocating system.
The director general of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said that there could be a serious problem if a new series of numbers is not introduced by next year. A possible solution is by adding another number making it eleven digits. The batch system was earlier used to avoid chaos from random digit phone numbers creating chaos in the telecom market. The operator is allocated 98 or 99 as the first two digits to a particular series of numbers to make it easier to identify them.
But since the consumer market is overshooting the one billion mark, phone numbers have to increase by one or two digits at least to accommodate more device or users. Other alternatives are also being explored such as removing inactive users for a temporary solution till a more permanent one is implemented.
(Based on Zdnet.com )
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