MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY

• NUMBER PORTABILITY
• TYPES
• BENEFITS
• ECONOMIC ISSUES
WHAT IS MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY?

• Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is a service

offered by all mobile service providers that
allows you to switch over to another service
provider while retaining your existing mobile
phone number.
 HOW WILL YOU BENEFIT?
• Singapore in 1997.
• Mobile number portability launched in India in
Haryana state on 25 November 2010.It was finally
launched all over India on 20th January 2011.
• Number Portability will allow subscribers to change
their service provider while retaining their old mobile
number. Portability benefits subscribers and increases
the level of competition between service providers,
rewarding service providers with the best customer
service, network coverage, and service quality.
• You are free to choose a new mobile service
provider without having to change to a new
number. You don’t have to notify friends/
family and associates about your new
operator when you move to  any other
operator. Just use your phone like you always
do.
 HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO PORT A
NUMBER?
• The entire process of porting takes
approximately 6 days. The exceptions are J&K,
Assam & the North Eastern regions where it
will take 10 days from the receipt of porting
clearance from the donor operator (operator
that you are leaving).
 WHO CAN PORT?
• You are eligible to make a porting request if
you have: An active connection that is at least
90 days old (as counted from the date of new
activation or the last port date) No payments
outstanding to the donor operator (operator
that you are leaving) No requests pending for
change of ownership of the number.
 What documents must a Prepaid/Postpaid
customer submit while making a port in request ?

• The customer will have to submit the same

documents as any new customer. These
include the new provider Customer
agreement form (CAF). You will also need a
self-attested photograph and an address proof
with your signature.
 TYPES
• Service operator portability
• Location portability
• Service portability
 SERVICE OPERATOR PORTABILITY
• The introduction of service provider portability allows
individual DNs in one NPA-NXX to be moved to a different
switch.To ensure that calls are routable to a portable
number, FCC approved the concept of location routing
number. Under the number portability standard, each
switch that hosts portable number is assigned a 10-digit
LRN that is used to route calls to that switch. All LNP-
capable network elements have to maintain a list of NPA-
NXXs that are considered portable. That particular FCC
mandate only refers to porting numbers within a given
"portability domain" or rate center.
 LOCATION PORTABILITY
• Location portability is the ability of users to retain
existing DNs without impairment of quality, reliability, or
convenience when moving from one physical location to
another. Location portability allows a given telephone
number to be associated with any network termination
device, independent of location. It also allows customers
to take their DNs when they move to another
geographic location outside of the original rate center.
Although FCC does not address location portability at
this time, it leaves room for changes in the future.
 SERVICE PORTABILITY
• Service portability is the ability of users to
retain existing DNs without impairment of
quality, reliability, or convenience when
switching from one service to another
provided by the same telecommunications
carrier. FCC is not addressing service
portability at this time and requirements for
service portability are still undefined.
 WORKING
• All Cell phones have special codes. These
codes identify the phone, the phone’s owner,
& the service provider. Cell phones use high
frequency radio signals to communicate with
cell towers located throughout the calling
area. These phones operate in the frequency
range of 806-890 MHz.
• When the user dials up a number, cell phone sends a
message to the tower, asking to connect to a given
telephone number. If the tower has sufficient
resources to grant the request, a device called
‘switch’ patches the cell phone’s signal throughout
to a channel on the public switched telephone
network (PSTN). The call now takes up a wireless
channel that is held open until the call is completed.
The PSTN channel cannot be used for any other call
until the cell phone call is discontinued.
 LIMITATION IN JOINING/PORTING MOBILE
OPERATORS?
• Postpaid customers cannot port in/out if they
have overdue bills. All existing credit available
to Prepaid customers will expire upon
successful porting and will not be carried
forward. Call charges, plans and VAS offered
by current service provider may differ from
that offered by your earlier service provider.
 THE INDIAN SCENARIO
• Up to 50 per cent of all mobile users in India
are unhappy with their operator, say market
surveys. Companies argue it will cost
thousands of crores to upgrade their networks
to implement this Portability may hit telco
bottomlines.
• They have also said the market was not
mature enough to support number portability,
and this must be introduced only when the
country has a high telecom penetration
(India’s teledensity is less than 20 per cent).
Competition is currently focussed on
increasing market share and penetration of
telecom services.
 CONCLUSION
• MNP does not generate churn, it only removes
one barrier from the way of free. As such, it
brings challenges and opportunities for old and
new telecommunications providers.
• To be successful in the competitive
telecommunications environment, carriers have
to carefully analyze their network and
administrative infrastructures, select the best
MNP solution for their needs.
 REFERENCES
• [1] Aoki, R. and J. Small (1999), The economics of number
portability: Switching costs and two-part tariffs, working
paper, University of Auckland.
• [2] INTUG (2003), Mobile Number Portability, International
Telecommunications User Group (INTUG):
[www.intug.net/mnp].
•  [3] Numpac Oy, 2004. Company web-site. Available at:
http://www.numpac.fi
•  [4] Consultation Paper on Mobile Number
Portability,Consultation Paper No. 7/2005, Telecom
Regulatory Authority of India, New Delhi: July 22, 2005.
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