Sunday, April 14, 2013

Chance to own a fancy landline number


BSNL opens bids from Monday
Chennai:      
Chennaites now have a chance to own a fancy landline numbers of their choice with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Chennai Telephones launching an online e-auction for allotting landline Vanity numbers in all the exchanges under its operational area.

A BSNL spokeswoman said that this is the first of its kind effort in all over the country and across operators. The modalities and procedure is similar to that adopted in the mobile vanity number e-auction.

Nearly 20,000 landline vanity numbers that are categorised into three levels viz., Level I, Level II and Level III are being put up for auction and the base price fixed are Rs 20,000, Rs 10,000 and Rs 5,000 respectively. The auction will begin from 10am on Monday and close at 5pm on April 22.

Customers who are interested to participate in the bid should register for each vanity number by paying a non refundable registration amount of Rs 100. This payment is to be made only through online.

The bidding amount can be in the multipes of 100 over and  above the reserve price. The bidding customer has to give the telephone number presently working for him or any adjacent working number thereupon the system will display the vanity numbers that are available under that particular telephone exchange area.

Subject to technical feasibility, the vanity number will be issued to the highest bidder upon payment of the bid amount and also submission of valid documents like address proof or identity proof etc.

Interested customers whether individuals and companies or firms registered as Indian Company within the area of Chennai Telephones can participate in this online e-auction and avail this opportunity to get fancy numbers of their choice. More details can be had by logging on to www.eauction.bsnl.co.in.

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