Mobile number portability: What an Idea?

IF YOUare not happy with yourtelecom service provider'sschemes andservices, don'tget irritated. Here comesthe solution. Chooseanother mobile operator and leave the old one.The much awaited Mobile Number Portability willget operational in India from today. The scheme was launched first in Haryana in Nov 2010 and is now all set to beoperational in all over India.In India there are more than 700 million mobile users. InMNP mobile users can switch to other service provider without changing thenumbers. Both prepaid and postpaid userswill havethe facility to switch to other operators.
Rules of Mobile Number Portability:
  • The subscriber needs to send a SMS from his mobile to 1900.
  • Once thesubscriber sends SMS, he will get a unique porting code fromcurrent service provider.
  • Then subscriber have to fill the application formand mention the new service provider.
  • New service provider will collect the information about the user from the current service provider. A timelag of7 days will be taken for the complete transfer of mobile number to thenew network operator. However, the time period of transferring in Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and North East areas will be 15 instead of 7 days.
  • For subscribing the new operator, the subscriber has to pay the amount of Rs 19.
With implementation of MNP, operators will have to focus on better customer care and network coverage while differentiated services from other providers like 3G.

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