India, Aug. 27 -- The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has sent a notification announcing that intra-circle roaming has been activated in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) region. The region is facing heavy rains and landslides, which has resulted in telecom infrastructure damage. To ensure that the subscribers of all telcos are connected to the mobile networks, intra-circle roaming has been activated. This will be active till September 2, 2025, end of day.

The decision to whether the intra-circle roaming needs to be extended or not is something the DoT will decide after seeing how the situation unfolds in the next few days. This notice has been sent by DoT to all the private telecom operators including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodaf...