The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently approved ten enterprises to launch pilot number protection services and approved 700 special code number resources for related enterprises. The number protection service business refers to a type of business commissioned by Internet platform companies such as takeout and online car-hailing to allocate temporary phone numbers to individual users in place of real mobile phone numbers to reduce the risk of user numbers being leaked. If the user checks the number protection service when placing an order, the communication with the takeaway worker or online ride-hailing driver will be completed with a 15-digit special number starting with 700, and the real mobile phone numbers of the two communicating parties will not be displayed to each other. According to the requirements of the “Notice on Launching a Pilot Number Protection Service Business” issued earlier by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the first batch of 10 enterprises obtained application platform provider qualifications and were approved with corresponding 700 special code number resources as compliance intermediaries, and initially carried out pilot exploration of number protection service businesses in scenarios such as takeout and online car-hailing. On the basis of pilot exploration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will gradually promote the number protection service business to cover more scenarios and more enterprises.

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