BSNL to stop pre-paid service in J&K from tomorrow

Srinagar, Oct 31 (PTI) Public sector mobile service provider BSNL today said it is going to stop the pre-paid mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow as per the policy of the government of India. However, pre-paid mobile services could be converted to postpaid connections, a spokesman of BSNL said today.

He said two new Customer Service Centre (CSC) will be opened at Kupwara and Dalgate in srinagar for prepaid mobile subscribers to convert into postpaid connections in addition to the existing CSC at Pulwama, Anantnag and Baramulla. Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir government today said it would take up the issue of ban on prepaid mobiles with the the Union Home Ministry to ensure that genuine users do not suffer and security is not compromised.

Additional staff is being posted at the centres, who will work in three shifts, to convert all the prepaid mobile numbers (about three lakh in Srinagar) into postpaid ones, the spokesperson said.

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