Mobile Number Portability

       From today in the country Mobile Number Portability or commonly known as MNP is comes into effective. It is in the news from almost two years now that it is going to implement in the country but because of one reason or another it was keep on delaying and dates of implantation of MNP in the country drag with new dates from the concerned government machinery. Last month on trail basis MNP was introduce in the Haryana state and from today onwards every part of the country comes under the ambit of MNP.

• What is Mobile Number Portability?
• Its simple and straight forward answer is that this is the service which allows subscriber to change his/her service provider without changing of his/her existing number.
• What are the benefits of MNP to the customers?
• In every circle scores of service providers are allowed to give there services’, thus they are operating in the environment of stiff competition, and to woo customers service providers play the marketing gimmicks, but in reality, on grounds which are differ and customers comes to know it when he/she start using service then customers get the correct pictures and feel he/she was cheated by concern service provider, and once attached with any company customer has to bear the service provider because then to change provider is very tedious task as his/her mobile number goes to his known circle, now subscriber can get rid on such service providers and change service provider without changing his/her number, it’s a tool handover to user by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

How to Apply -

• Make contact with service provider with whom subscriber want to port.
• Do ask for Consumer Application Form (CAF) and Port Form.
• Read carefully eligibility and terms & conditions.
• If find eligible then do send SMS from the mobile number which has to be port to 1900, i.e. first to write PORT then leave a space, then ten digit mobile number whom you want to port, then customer will get special porting code on to the same mobile.
• Fill up Consumer Application Form (CAF) and Port Form along with require documents at new service provider outlet.
• If subscriber is POSTPAID then he/she has to submit copy of last paid bill to new service provider.
• Do collect new SIM from new service provider.

Customer can cancel his/her MNP request within twenty four hours.
Activation of PORT number -

• New mobile service provider will inform customer about date and time of activation on to the concerned mobile number.
• On mentioned date and time, do change your old SIM card with new SIM card provider by new service provider.

Eligibility and Terms and Conditions -

• Customer can use mobile number portability after the gap of ninety days, whether consumer is using port facility first time or already used in the past minimum ninety days are required.
• Number portability is allowed within same circle.
• If subscriber has POSTPAID connection then he/she has to pay the whole amount of last bill and subscriber has to declare it on to porting form.
• If subscriber has PREPAID connection then he/she keep in mind that they are not allowed to carry forward there remaining balance of past service provider and it will be expire with activation of number portability.

Expenses and Time Period -

• Porting expenses Nineteen Rupees ( 19/- )
• Porting Time- Seven ( 7 ) days but for Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and other Eastern States fifteen ( 15) days.

For more detail, anybody can log on to the site of TRAI, whose URL is –
                                      www.trai.gov.in
     So from today onwards TRAI has given power to mobile customers to choose there operator whose services they like with same number with only term of ninety days gap, and for service providers MNP will always make them on to there feet to give best service monetary wise and connectivity wise other wise they can loose massive chunk of consumers they were carrying with them before the era of MNP.