25-01-2011, 05:04 PM
Mobile Number Portability in India
The Indian Telecom market stands apart from other countries' market in the fact that it has the World’s lowest call rate and fastest growing subscriber rate. Yet the a mobile penetration rate is as low as 37%. The Mobile Number Portability (MNP) was decided to be implemented in India by the TRAI (Telecom regulatory Authority of India), and it has been recently made available by the different networks in India.
The steps involved in the porting of a number to a different provider:
1) Customer making a written request to the recipient operator (RO) for porting along with other documents.
2)Verification of the documents by the RO.
3)RO asks the customer to send an SMS to the Donor.
4)The DO(donor operator) sends an automated SMS reply along with a unique porting code.
5)Customer submits the code to the RO.
6)The unique porting code is send to the MNP service provider.
7)the 90 day condition and no pending porting request on that number is verified by the MNPSP.
8)Details forwarded to the RO if verified.
9)criteria for porting are satisfied and inform MNPSP
10)a date and time of porting is fixed by the MNPSP which is withun 36 hrs of the clearance from RO&DO.
11)date & time informed to the subscriber through SMS.
12)instructions for disconnecting the number to the DO is sent by the MNPSP.
13)The DO release the number and report it to MNPSP.
14)MNPSP will inform the RO to activate the mobile number for that RO.
15)a corresponding Location Routing Number is assigned to it by the MNPSP and broadcasts the same to all the Access Providers and International Long
Distance operators..
The request for porting the number can be withdrawn within twenty four hours of making the application.
For details see:
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