The much awaited mobile number portability (MNP) has been amended by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday which will allow mobile users to use the same number pan India.
“TRAI has today issued sixth amendment to the Telecomminication Mobile Number Portability Regulation, 2009 which will facilitate full MNP (pan India portability) in the country from May 3,” the sector regulator said in a statement.
The latest regulation will make mobile subscribers worriless in terms of retaining the same number wherever they go in India. As of now, it is only allowed in same circle or within a state.
This facility (full MNP) was to be launched by April 2014 but the Department of Telecom got embroiled in technicalities related to implementation.
Apart from facilitating pan-India portability, a few changes have also been made in porting process as well such as in case a postpaid subscriber defaults in the payment which was due to the donor operator (DO), the DO may request the recipient operator (RO) for disconnection of the ported mobile number.
“It is noticed that in many cases, the DO raises disconnection requests (due to non-payment of outstanding bill) long after the subscriber has ported his number. Therefore, there is a need to bring order in this matter so that non-payment disconnection cases are settled in a timely manner by the Donor as well as the RO to avoid any inconvenience to the subscriber at a later date,” TRAI said.
Accordingly, in the Amendment, time period of ’30 days’ from the due date of the outstanding bill has been specified for a DO to raise the non-payment notice to the subscriber who has defaulted in the payment.
It is also stipulated that after completion of ’60 days’ from the due date of payment of the outstanding bill, the DO will not be entitled to raise non-payment disconnection requests to the RO through the MNP service provider.
Source: HBL
“TRAI has today issued sixth amendment to the Telecomminication Mobile Number Portability Regulation, 2009 which will facilitate full MNP (pan India portability) in the country from May 3,” the sector regulator said in a statement.
The latest regulation will make mobile subscribers worriless in terms of retaining the same number wherever they go in India. As of now, it is only allowed in same circle or within a state.
This facility (full MNP) was to be launched by April 2014 but the Department of Telecom got embroiled in technicalities related to implementation.
Apart from facilitating pan-India portability, a few changes have also been made in porting process as well such as in case a postpaid subscriber defaults in the payment which was due to the donor operator (DO), the DO may request the recipient operator (RO) for disconnection of the ported mobile number.
“It is noticed that in many cases, the DO raises disconnection requests (due to non-payment of outstanding bill) long after the subscriber has ported his number. Therefore, there is a need to bring order in this matter so that non-payment disconnection cases are settled in a timely manner by the Donor as well as the RO to avoid any inconvenience to the subscriber at a later date,” TRAI said.
Accordingly, in the Amendment, time period of ’30 days’ from the due date of the outstanding bill has been specified for a DO to raise the non-payment notice to the subscriber who has defaulted in the payment.
It is also stipulated that after completion of ’60 days’ from the due date of payment of the outstanding bill, the DO will not be entitled to raise non-payment disconnection requests to the RO through the MNP service provider.
Source: HBL
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