Monday, January 26, 2009

Mobile Number Portability in India

Indian government has invited bids from experienced global players for commissioning mobile number portability (MNP) in India. If all goes well users can expect to have MNP in place in India by second half of 2009. Initially government has suggested a price range of INR 200-300 for a change of operator, but now it has said that TRAI will decide in pricing.

MNP enables users to avail change of mobile operator without having to mobile number. This brings in fair amount of fair competition. Many countries already have such system in place.

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