Implementation of New Public Cellular Phone Numbering With 3 Plus 8

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has announced on the 1st October 2010 that a new mobile prefix “011” has been opened to be shared by the mobile telephone operators. This prefix is the first three numbers followed by the eight-digit telephone number and also known as 3 + 8 Public Cellular Phone Numbering. The decision to open a new shared prefix “011” is one of the measures to accommodate the public cellular service providers’ additional requirement for numbers. Through another announcement made by MCMC on the 2nd November 2010,a briefing was held at MCMC Headquarters which was attended by industry members,regulatory bodies, the media, consumer forums and interested parties.The briefing sought to enhance participants understanding of the new public cellular numbering system.

The new public cellular phone numbering will take off with the prefix-011 followed by eight digit numbers (011 1XXX XXXX), set to be launched on 15 December 2010. This is one of the long-term planning measures undertaken by MCMC after taking into consideration that the existing public cellular phone numbering format of 3 + 7 is running out and will not be able to support and accommodate the demands from the industry in the near future. However, these additional allocations will not a replacement to the existing prefixes for public cellular numbers that are currently in use, such as 010, 012, 013, 014, 016, 017, 018 and 019. The accompanying seven digit subscriber numbers used with these prefixes will continue to be used.

This new implementation is also a result of the increase in the number of cellular service providers and the potential of various service applications which will be made available due to the advancement of communication technologies.





The prefix 011 is intended to be shared by all the existing service providers to provide additional new mobile numbers to be shared by the operators under one common dialing prefix.

Sources : http://www.skmm.gov.my/