Mobiles to get 08 prefix
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is to introduce a new telephone numbering system on September 1, which will see all mobile-phone numbers extended to 10 digits by adding the prefix 08.
For example the number (01) 123 4567, will become (081) 123 4567. Fixed-line numbers will remain the same.The plan aims to increase the number of phone numbers by 300 million, enough for the next 30 years. Direk Charoenphol, chairman of the NTC committee assigned to draft the numbering plan, said the NTC would test the system once in July and again in August. He said the NTC had already informed telecom operators of the September 1 schedule. Telecom Reporters, The Nation
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