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Article: India: Northeast will continue pre-paid mobile connections.
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- November 3, 2009
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Nov 2 (IANS) Pre-paid mobile telephone services will continue in northeast India though the union home ministry has banned it in Jammu and Kashmir over serious security concerns , officials said here Monday. Like Kashmir, many areas of the northeast are also beset with insurgencies.
The union home ministry has asked Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and the state governments of the northeastern states to send reports on the use or misuse of pre-paid mobile services by the militants or any unauthorised elements, said BSNL general manager (operations) Deb Kumar Chakraborty.
We do not have specific reports that pre-paid cell phone ...