Mobile number portability is the facility of changing of your
telecom service provider without changing your number .There are two types of
Number portability .
1. Recipient Led Porting
As per International and European standard is f
customer wishing to port his/her number need to contact new network (recipient), which then sends the
number portability request (NPR) to the current network (donor). This is known
as "recipient-led" porting.
2. Donor Led Porting
The UK and
India are the only exceptions to implement the donor-led porting system. The customer
wishing to port his/her number is required to contact the donor to obtain (PAC)
in the UK and Unique porting code(UPC)
in India)which is then given to the recipient network. The recipient continues
the porting process by contacting the donor with a porting code. This form of
porting is known as "donor-led" porting system.
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Drawback of Donor Led Porting System
Although this system prevents MNP scams. It has been observed that it may act as customer
deterrent as well as allowing the donor an opportunity of "winning
back" the customer. This might lead to distortion of competition.
History of Porting in India
Based on the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority
of India (TRAI) on MNP, dated 8 March 2006, the Department of
Telecommunications (DoT) issued guidelines for Mobile Number Portability implementation in the
country on 1st Aug 2008. Subsequently, the DoT selected two companies as MNP
Service providers each serving in a designated zone in the country. As per the
instructions of DoT dated 6 May 2009, a Port Transaction Charge will be charged
by the MNP Service Provider from the recipient carrier for processing each
porting request. The Dipping charge shall be payable by those telecom service
providers who utilize the query response services from the MNP Service
Provider. The Porting Charge is payable by the subscriber to the recipient
carrier for porting his mobile number. The port transaction charge, dipping
charges and the porting charge shall be governed by the Telecom Tariff Order
(TTO)/ determination by TRAI.
Technical
details
A significant technical aspect of MNP is related to the routing
of calls or messages to a number once it has been ported. There are
various types of call routing implemented across the globe but the International and
European best practice is via the use of a central database (CDB) of ported
numbers.
A network operator makes
copies of the central database and queries it to find out to which network to
send a call. This is also known as All Call Query (ACQ) and is highly efficient
and scalable. A majority of the established and upcoming MNP systems across the
world are based on this ACQ/CDB method of call routing.
One of the few countries not to use
ACQ/CDB is the UK, where once a number has been ported, calls to that number
are still routed via the donor network. This is also known as "indirect
routing" and is highly inefficient, as it is wasteful of transmission and
switching capacity.
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Porting Time
Prior to March 2008 it took a minimum of 5 working days to port
a number in the UK compared to 3.5 working days in Pakistan, 2
hours in United States, as low as 20 minutes in the Republic
of Ireland, 3 minutes in Australia and even a matter of seconds in New
Zealand.
On 17 July 2007, Ofcom(Telecom Regulatory Authority of UK) released
its conclusions from the review of the UK MNP and mandated reduction of porting
time to 2 working days effective from 1 April 2008.
on 8 July 2010, Ofcom issued a final statement, retaining the
donor-led process, mandating a two-hour PAC release time, and reducing the
porting time from two to one working day.
In
a decentralised model of MNP, a flexible number register may be used to
manage a database of ported out/ported in numbers for call routing.
In India time required for Mobile number portability was 7 days earlier which was
further reduced to 2 days for Home LSA(Within State) and 4 days for inter
LSA(one state to other state ) in India as per TRAI’s
7th Amendment to Mobile number portability Rules, Dated 13.12.2018, effective from 1 Jan 2019
Porting can be done only after completion of 90 days in one network . Port request can be cancelled within 24 hours of application.
Mobile Number Portability(MNP) Procedure in India
For MNP you need to write in message box "PORT
space MOB NO" and send SMS to 1900 , a unique porting code(UPC) will be send to your mobile by
your current operator ,this UPC will be valid for 4 days.
After that you need to visit retailer shop
or service center of receiver operator(Telecom operator on which you are porting) and need to give this UPC code along with
desired documents and Photograph, to fill the form for porting. New SIM will be
provided by retailer or service center. Your request of porting will be send by Receiver operator
to Donor operator, once request is accepted by donor operator your old SIM will
stop working. Then you need to insert new SIM in your mobile ,now your number
is ported in new network.
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Porting Charge to Customer
There is no charge of porting your number but
activation recharge is required by new telecom operator to give validity and
balance.
After the amendment in MNP policy , recently AIRTEL and IDEA-VODAFONE made compulsory for customers to recharge for min. 35 Rs in a month to continue services. Since this change huge surge is observed in Mobile Number portability from these two operators to RJIO and BSNL.
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