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Thursday, Mar 09, 2006
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Telecommunications TRAI moots usage of `strings' in mobiles Our Bureau
New Delhi , March 8 In a bid to promote accessing high-speed data on mobile phones, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended the usage of `strings' such as # and $ without which mobile customers are unable to access always-on Internet connectivity. The TRAI said that most of the basic and unified access operators, who are providing services through wireless-based network, have expressed their inability to provide Internet access by dialling digits `172' - as per the existing provision of National Numbering Plan-2003 pertaining to dialup Internet access - due to technical non-feasibility. "Their customers are provided access to Internet services by keying in #777 as a standard feature of CDMA handsets and $99$ and *99 # as a standard feature of GSM handsets to invoke the service option for high-speed Internet access," the TRAI said. The DoT's National Numbering Plan 2003 does not explicitly bar, but is silent on, the usage of such strings to indicate the option for higher-speed Internet access within the service providers' network. The TRAI is of the view that the strings used for keying in service option in a mobile handset are an integral part of the handset and not transmitted further to the network.
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