Trai to telcos: List disconnected numbers to enable clean up of database by banks

Trai on Thursday asked telcos to submit, on a monthly basis, lists of permanently disconnected mobile numbers on the authority’s website in a bid to enable companies which use subscriber mobile numbers for identification and authentication to keep their systems updated. The latest move by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is aimed at ensuring that banks, insurance companies and others would have a ready list (without names) of mobile numbers that are disconnected.

This, in turn, will prevent service delivery platforms from using those numbers for any authentication purpose, say through one time password.

“And whereas a mobile number, when surrendered or permanently disconnected, after a certain time period gets re-allocated to some other customer, but many service delivery platforms/