TRAI issues draft for Mobile Number Portability

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New Delhi: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) issued draft regulations for introduction of mobile number portability (MNP) in the country.

The draft regulations describe the rights, obligations and duties of both the telecom operators (donor and recipient) for the "porting" (changing) of mobile number, TRAI said in a statement.

MNP allows a user to change his/her telecom operator without changing the mobile phone number. The draft suggests that a mobile subscriber shall be eligible to make a request for "porting" (changing) his mobile number upon expiry of a period of ninety days from the date of activation of his present mobile connection.

The recipient operator, within five days of receiving a written request, has to carry out subscriber verification according to the guidelines for acquiring a new user.

Upon verification, the request is to be forwarded to the donor operator (to whose network such mobile subscriber number currently belongs) for seeking its clearance.

Upon receipt of the porting request, the donor operator shall verify and communicate the details to the MNP service provider within two working days.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had issued guidelines for MNP service license in August last year and its envisaged geographical division of the country into two Number Portability Zones, each consisting of 11 licensed service areas.

Subsequently, one MNP service provider in each zone was selected -- Syniverse Technologies (in north and western India) and MNP Interconnection Telecom Solutions (for east and southern India). The licenses were granted in March this year.

The MNP service provider would be responsible for establishing, operating and maintaining the MNP Clearing House and the Number Portability Database.

TRAI has sought comments from the stakeholders on these draft regulations by July 14.

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» MNP - Inter Zone

Posted by Rajeev on 2009-07-08 12:11:07.276254+05:30
Well I think Inter Zone will be allowed.Most of the major telecom operators in India enable roaming services.So say I purchase a connection from an XYZ telecom operator in Maharashtra,and the same operator has services throughout the country;now I moved to Gujurat and plan to change my telecom operator for whatsoever reason(say to PQR)who may or may not have services throughout the country,I think I should easily be able to do MNP to PQR operator from XYZ operator but subjected to the MNP regulations of TRAI.

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» Mobile Number Portability - Inter Zone.

Posted by Ajit K on 2009-07-07 13:54:00.959454+05:30
MNP allows a user to change his/her telecom operator without changing the mobile phone number, will it be inerzone also say from Maharashtra to Gujrat or vice versa.

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