Hyderabad
May 4: Think twice before buying a fancy mobile number since they seem to attract more blank calls and SMSes than ordinary numbers.
Though owning a fancy mobile number adds to your status, it comes at a price. And we are not talking about the hefty amount you pay for the number.
Service providers get sundry complaints from customers who have fancy or unique numbers about blank calls and SMSes at odd hours. “I bought a Tata Indicom fancy number paying Rs 1 lakh but now I regret it,” said Mr Vimal Kumar, manager of Hot Tracks. “I am fed up with the daily SMSes and blank calls. I have complained to the service providers but to no avail.”
Vodafone, Spice, BSNL and Tata Indicom have all raked in additional revenues by auctioning VIP numbers.
Last week BSNL closed its auction of numbers for pre-paid cellular subscribers. The numbers up for sale were 94928-88888, 94927-44444 and 94927-77777. The auction was closed with highest bidding rate of Rs 1.7lakh for the number 9492888888 against the reserve price of Rs 25,000. The auction was done on SMS. “Three months ago, I bought a postpaid premium number from BSNL by paying Rs 1.12 lakh thinking that it will add to my status but unfortunately it gave me sleepless nights with continuous calls,” said Mr Suman Kumar, proprietor of Suman chit fund. “Finally I deactivated my number.”
Mr. G. P. Reddy, general manager, Cell One, said that high-class consumers were going for fancy numbers since owning a mobile was no more a status symbol.
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