Bulgaria’s Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) grants Mobitel, after ten months of it’s request, new dialling code and two million new phone numbers. Now Mobitel, which operates on 88 dialling code will also be using 98 code. The all new 2 million mobile numbers will have the 988 and 989 prefixes.
Mobitel had requested the regulator for a vancant code in 2007, but was rejected as the operator then was using only 60% of the allocated numbers.
The operator argued that with five million subscribers, one million SIM cards on sale, another million for internal systems synchronisation and yet more used to provide data services, it was running low on resources.
M-Tel had taken the regulator to court for the rejection of the requst for additional numbers, which were needed as it was looking forward to launch new services with the new code.
According to telco, the resource will not be used for new SIM cards because the old capacity has not been depleted. The CRC will allocate two million numbers for Mobiltel’s rivals, Globul and Vivatel, although neither has requested additional numbers.
Wireless Federation » Mobitel recieves a new dialling code and two million phone numbers (Bulgaria)
Mobitel recieves a new dialling code and two million phone numbers (Bulgaria)
- October 8th, 2008
- 7:11 am
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