Mobile telephone numbering in India

In India, mobile numbers (including pagers) on GSM, WCDMA, LTE and NR networks start with either 9, 8, 7 or 6. Each telecom circle is allowed to have multiple private operators; previously it was two private + BSNL/MTNL, subsequently it changed to three private + BSNL/MTNL in GSM; however currently each telecom circle has all four operators including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and BSNL/MTNL.

All mobile phone numbers are 10 digits long. The way to split the numbers is defined in the National Numbering Plan as XXXXX-NNNNN. Here, XXXXX identifies the network operator and the telecom circle while NNNNN identifies the subscriber. While 'XXXXX' used to be network operator identification. Due to Mobile number portability XXXXX-NNNNN no longer a good way to split. Instead XXXX-NNN-NNN is a better format. Where XXXX represents the geographic location and NNN-NNN represents the subscriber number. This split of XXXX-NNN-NNN offers better readability.

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