Aladdin
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New Delhi: Under the telecom mobile number portability (MNP) scheme, any mobile subscriber is eligible to make a porting request but only 90 days after the date of activation of the mobile connection. If a number is already ported once, the number can be ported again only after 90 days from the date of the previous porting.
Subscribers must approach the recipient operator (the operator to whom the subscriber wants to port his number) and pay the porting charges, if any. “A separate regulation for porting charges will be released in 15 days,’’ Trai chairman J S Sarma told TOI.
The subscriber making the porting request has to give an undertaking that all billed dues to the donor operator have been paid as on the date of the request for porting, that he shall pay dues to the donor operator till the eventual porting of the number and that he understands and agrees that in event of non-payment of any such dues, the ported mobile number is liable to be disconnected by the recipient operator.
While a subscriber can withdraw his porting request within 24 hours of its submission to the recipient operator, the porting charges will not be refundable.
Trai allows a maximum of 4 days for the completion of the porting process in all licensed service areas except J&K, Assam and the North-East where the maximum time allowed is 12 days. However, efforts will be made to further reduce the porting period, it says. It is the responsibility of the originating operator to route the call to the correct terminating network.
Through these regulations, the telecom watchdog is laying down the basic business process framework for implementation of MNP in the country. TRAI placed the draft regulations on its website on June 27 for consultation with stakeholders. These regulations follow a careful review of written comments and open house discussions a month later.
Source : TOI Welcome - Times Of India ePaper
Subscribers must approach the recipient operator (the operator to whom the subscriber wants to port his number) and pay the porting charges, if any. “A separate regulation for porting charges will be released in 15 days,’’ Trai chairman J S Sarma told TOI.
The subscriber making the porting request has to give an undertaking that all billed dues to the donor operator have been paid as on the date of the request for porting, that he shall pay dues to the donor operator till the eventual porting of the number and that he understands and agrees that in event of non-payment of any such dues, the ported mobile number is liable to be disconnected by the recipient operator.
While a subscriber can withdraw his porting request within 24 hours of its submission to the recipient operator, the porting charges will not be refundable.
Trai allows a maximum of 4 days for the completion of the porting process in all licensed service areas except J&K, Assam and the North-East where the maximum time allowed is 12 days. However, efforts will be made to further reduce the porting period, it says. It is the responsibility of the originating operator to route the call to the correct terminating network.
Through these regulations, the telecom watchdog is laying down the basic business process framework for implementation of MNP in the country. TRAI placed the draft regulations on its website on June 27 for consultation with stakeholders. These regulations follow a careful review of written comments and open house discussions a month later.
Source : TOI Welcome - Times Of India ePaper
