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A BSNL VIP number with digits XXX7000000 was up for sale on BSNL's online portal where people can bid in auctions for such numbers.
As per the leading Hindi daily, Navbharat Times, a BSNL VIP number with digits XXX7000000 was up for sale on BSNL's online portal where people can bid in auctions for such numbers. The number was available for a week, with different auction bids coming for it. The bid for the number initially started at Rs 20,000 and finally went beyond Rs 2 lakh (2,00,000).
The winner of the auction with a bid of Rs 2.4 lakh and the new owner of the said BSNL mobile number is Tanuj Dudeja from Kota who is a potato trader by profession. The winner collected the mobile number, after submitting the winning bid in the BSNL office in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh. he also finally collected the number from Farrukhabad only.
As per one BSNL employee, Mr. Dudeja likes to keep VIP mobile numbers. The Rs 2.4 lakh VIP number is his second buy as he had also bought another number for Rs 1 lakh earlier. There are many other VIP numbers available on BSNL's website as well. To buy any such number, prospective buyers need to first put in a bid, and the highest bidder over a period of time gets to choose the number.