Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)'s AP
telecom circle will be unveils on Tuesday its ‘Choose your mobile number'
scheme, under which prospective customers would be able to choose any number,
sans any extra cost, from a list of about 100,000 numbers that will be made
available on its website – www.ap.bsnl.co.in.
BSNL's choose your mobile number scheme, procedure is through online or
through SMS will very soon be available across all the circles. So far, the
service is available only in Andhra Pradesh circle where it was launched last
month. With choose your mobile number scheme, customers can choose the numbers
through BSNL website or SMS or from any retailer from the pool of numbers.
“After selecting the number of his choice, the
customer will receive a PIN number on his mobile. The selected number will be
reserved for 48 hours and will no longer be visible for further selection,”
Rajeev Agarwal, chief general manager of BSNL-AP circle, told media persons
here. Customers need to approach a customer service centre or a retailer with
the PIN number, who will provide him with the same number. Customers can reserve
a maximum of two numbers, and the list will be updated every day or even at a
higher frequency, to ensure that additional numbers are added to make 100,000
numbers available every day with the customers to choose from. “Besides, it
increases the loyalty of the customers to BSNL as the number is taken on his
choice. We will set targets for the scheme after watching the initial response.