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MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY

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

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MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY

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  1. MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY

  2. NUMBER PORTABILITY • TYPES • BENEFITS • ECONOMIC ISSUES

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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).

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. TYPES • Service operator portability • Location portability • Service portability

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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 telcobottomlines.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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] NumpacOy, 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.

  20. THANK YOU

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