Deadline for Pan-India Mobile Number Portability (MNP) extended by DoT till July

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Deadline to implement the full mobile number portability (MNP) across the India has now been extended by another two months. Cellular Operators Association on India (COAI) have asked for extension seeking some technical issues in implementation. Continue reading “Deadline for Pan-India Mobile Number Portability (MNP) extended by DoT till July”

Vodafone , Idea Top Gainers in MNP according to COAI Report

Two months after the introduction of Mobile Number Portablility (MNP), Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has revealed the number of people ported in and out of the operators. Their report says, less than 1 % of the total subscribers have ported to other operators after MNP.
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11 Digits Phone Numbers to be soon a reality?

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With an exponential increase in the Mobile subscribers rate, we might be soon having 11 digits Phone Numbers. Government of India is reportedly now considering to change the numbering scheme from the current 10 digits to 11 digits with an addition of digit “9” to the numbers in order to accomodate more users.

TRAI, the telecom regulator of India, has recorded an increase of 16.67 million during october 2009 itself taking the total number of subscribers to 488 million subscribers. Hence DoT (Department of Telecommunication) has supposedly issued a note to all the telecom operators to start making necessary arrangements for the migration from Jan 1, 2010. Continue reading “11 Digits Phone Numbers to be soon a reality?”

Syniverse to Provide Mobile Number Portability in India

Syniverse has been chosen as one of two providers to implement number portability clearing house and centralized database services for India’s 350 million mobile users.

Mobile Number Portability means that you can retain your old mobile number with a new operator .

Say you move from Vodafone to Airtel . You can continue to use the Vodafone number on Airtel network when this service becomes available. Continue reading “Syniverse to Provide Mobile Number Portability in India”

Come August, say Hello to Mobile Number Portability

As all of you have already read, Chennai said hello to some serious technology development, though not commercially available as of yet. Yes Chennai witnessed the launch of 3 G services yesterday . But we covered it yesterday.There is another technology the government has been promising to launch for a long time.

Yes you got it right, it’s about MNP or mobile number portability. Continue reading “Come August, say Hello to Mobile Number Portability”