The government expects to implement nationwide mobile number portability (MNP) by March 31, 2015.
The
move will allow subscribers to shift their mobile service on to the
network of any telecom operator throughout the country without changing
their cellphone number.
“The
national mobile number portability service is likely expected to be
implemented by March 31, 2015,” telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
said in a reply in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
The
department of telecom (DoT) has sought Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India’s (TRAI) view on additional entry fee, performance bank guarantee
and financial bank guarantee to be charged from existing MNP service
providers.
TRAI
asked the department of telecom not to make any changes in entry fee
and bank guarantee of companies involved in managing MNP service due to
various reasons.
At
present, two companies Syniverse Technologies and MNP Interconnection
Telecom Solution, operate to provide mobile number portability service.
The telcom regulator said that these companies have still around five years before their license validity expires.
TRAI
has submitted its reply to DoT on July 21 which will be placed before
inter-ministerial panel telecom commission for its consideration.
The
regulator in its recommendation has said that telecom operators and MNP
service providers should be given six months time to make necessary
technical changes in their network to start nationwide mobile number
portability service.
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